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Further your point that ti has been integrated into our culture, I've read interesting pieces (probably linked by HackerNews) where it was integral to the founding of culture at all. We're a pretty edgy species, and alcohol has historic significance in helping us come down from the anxiety of and reach political/social agreement.

Back to the topic, though I'd love to spider on the drugs-in-society vein, I'm glad OP documented the experience. Have a feeling it will make me much more conscience of the assisted wind-down when I grab a beer after work.

My wife and I have elected for no A/C in the city for the last 5 years. Pretty much an experiment in stubbornness, but I'm sure it's also saved real money in electricity and we're also probably so skinny because of it.

We try to keep a cross-breeze going whenever possible; ceiling and floor fans are on full blast at all hours; and most recently, I've enjoyed spritzing my feet with water and lying in front of the fan to cool down.

It's only marginally quieter with the windows closed ... and our's are always open anyways.

Was down in FL on vacation and the wife kept waking up because of the faintest repeating buzz since it was the only noise.

They say they don't keep shadow profiles of your external Web traffic [though I can't imagine that's true].

In line with other responses, I use a browser plugin that blocks all traffic to Facebook when I'm not on a facebook.com domain, and I exclusively sign in via incognito mode so the session is destroyed when I'm finished.

I'm a little late to the party, but can't believe so few people brought up the lack of availability admitted in this article. The OP is admitting that the company's official stance of availability is that it will restore from 1 hour ago ... and lose client data.

Losing client data is the worst thing you could do as a SaaS. The second worst thing you could do is to not be online - e.g., as someone pointed out; because one app (or even something out of your control) took out all your services.

MS is not really the story here. Cost of HA in typical Linux vs. MS stacks, which wasn't addressed at all in the article, is what is relevant.

Dyson? You're so far off ... it's clearly Darth Vader.

I can't believe no one has recognized the classic Lucas handiwork. The helmet descending on the tangled mass of circuits. The signature triangular mouth piece is so clearly evident in the heat exchanger. I can just hear it cooling ...

Amazing retro-future design cues aside, it might be user-serviceable for all components - will wait for the teardown. It's gorgeous enough to be on the desktop and may be quieter because of the chimney. And it's finally a really powerful Mac.

If you need something more powerful than this, it seems maybe a server is more appropriate.

Hey bruv, another fellow alum from the engineering school.

I agree with your sentiment regarding the value of connections, and that's where the premium cost of on-campus MS programs comes in. But there is a clear value to getting a degree with a reputation and accreditation versus learning the same material independently.

Additionally, defending a thesis to a random professor thousands of miles away isn't far off from my real-world work environment. Worked for IBM and literally never met my manager during my tenure. Currently work at a firm with colleagues predominantly across the world and have to manage direct reports, solve problems, and build rapport all the same. Getting things done despite being remote is the direction.

Except no GRE, which is removing another unnecessary barrier to entry. The admissions process also seems to be an effort-based process of testing out of some initial curriculum. Much better than studying for a standardized test.

Looks like Jeff Bridges to me ...

It's about recruitment. Every IBank and top tier consulting firm recruits heavily from the Wharton graduating class. That's what you're paying for.

You're also getting the opportunity (not guarantee) to get a top tier education - but that can be gotten anywhere. Study for the CFA tests if you really want to know finance. Go to Wharton if you want to get a job.

Was going to jibe about "high paying" job, but that's not really it. It's just any competitive placement benefits from active recruitment.

OS X has an delightful affinity for Emacs bindings in standard implementations - try Ctrl-d to delete without leaving home row.

Mind you, if you're in MS Word for Mac then you'll just have to suck on an egg: no Ctrl-d, Ctrl-a, Ctrl-e for you.

Assuming this guy wasn't naked when you posted this ... but he is now.

This floated around on the interwebs a while ago - part of a vulnerability study that was posted to the blog detailing the approach for generating the set of camera feeds: http://cryptogasm.com/2012/02/list-of-vulnerable-trendnet-we...

Check out the Oglaf.com landing page for a funny play on this paradox (somewhat NSFW ... really funny, too).

It amounts to:

* If over 18: Select "Over 18".

* If not over 18: Get your parental guardian, who is over 18, to select "Not 18" on your behalf.

Don't need rail, just rapid bus transit like Bogota. Have folks pre-pay so loading is snick-snick and give them an enforced lane to themselves.

Bogota does it right, here. NYC is starting to follow a bit with the Select bus lines, as well.

I'm really just shocked that all this time LA didn't synchronise their lights. What have they been doing?! NYC has scientists tuning our lights for a living, and cars aren't our thing.

Arguably a little off topic, but it struck me that Louis XIV had a well known "trademark" of always wearing contrasting red soles and heels, and that this was even historically notable since he "protected" his trademark by not allowing people out of his court to wear them. And still Christian Louboutin has won the right in the US to a legally granted monopoly on contrasting red-soled shoes?

Slapped down: http://nymag.com/fashion/11/fall/christian-louboutin-red-sol...

Wins on appeal: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/nyregion/court-rules-loubo...

I just can't get over the fact that a private company owns the trademark right to contrast red soles on high heels ... Louis, back me up.

IBM? 400k employees and they kinda know their *nix.

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Well it took significant willpower not to submit a pull request for a screened-in porch and a water slide ...

I'm a little late to this, but my wife and I share an iTunes account since we have shared devices. The fact that the same password is used to download a free app and to REMOTE WIPE my primary business machine is terrifying. I would like that nuclear password to be 20 random characters and symbols, please, not one that I have to type in on my iPhone whenever I download the new Cut the Rope.

It's just upsetting to think back to the story of the gentleman who had every single device wiped remotely after someone called into Apple support and impersonated him with publicly available information from his Amazon account. Yet very little has been done.

This. I'm all of punishing the hell out of cabbies that cheat (e.g., fare refusals or the out-of-city overcharged fares that were discovered via GPS data), but the failure to get into the cab ruins the whole case.

Get in the cab. State your business. Snap a photo of the driver's license if you are asked to leave and report him/her to 311. Blog to your heart's content on behalf of your company's alternative service.

Tracking doesn't start at "pressing Like", but the Like button is actually loaded from an HTTP call to Facebook's server with the referer of the site you're on ... so they know could (claim: don't) track every site you visit with any original cookie you set on Facebook's site.

All the responses about supply and demand aren't accounting for the fact that taxi drivers are a protected industry in New York.

You are unionized, have benefits, and have protections preventing any ol' person from starting a taxi service that are VERY COSTLY to NY residents. But it ensures a safe and mutually beneficial industry.

So a big fuck you to anyone who price gouges. I hope you lose the medallion, lose your job, and lose your benefits.

Cheers.

I'm OK with it because I see it as a necessary evil - always considering the worst implementations of any new rules.

Right now we all have the same expectation of privacy - that is we have none if in public, and none if its a digitally distributed photo. That expectation does not shift based on one's age.

What if the non-consenting minor is Miley Cyrus? What if a compromising photo of police brutality has a kid in the background - can they force a take-down of my photo? Off the deep end, but I'm just pointing out that we are on a level playing field, and it's likely for the better.

We obviously make many concessions to our rights to protect children, but this is not one of them. E.g., as an adult male, I can't eat my sandwich in some NY parks unless I'm accompanied by a child. I just hope the children are grateful for my sacrifice ...

I'm completely with you on the reckless automated DMCA notice system. That does not seem to be the case here at all.

Was going to note the same thing. Pearson executed an appropriate request for taking down copyrighted material with all the rights for opposition that the DMCA enables.

The question, which the link-bait-y article didn't bother answering, is whether or not ServerBeach expressly outlined its response to DMCA takedowns beforehand. If not, they have more than a PR problem. If so, then not a very good idea to host a blog site (or any user-generated content site) with them ...

Also, at $75k/yr seems they're well beyond hosting and should be collocating their own hardware.

Couldn't stomach reading all the way through this.

And I'm almost too afraid to add my comment lest it finds its way to your blog styled in bold followed by a "FUCK YOU" response. Keep it classy.

Dying watching this video over here. Watched it twice and couldn't stop laughing ...

Some missing FAQs:

* How fricking hot is it in that pillow-hat?

* How do you prevent people from messing with you when sleeping on the train?

On a regrettably serious aside, I am curious if there is a natural advantage to sleeping with you hands over your head - opens your lungs up, but would make circulation more difficult ...

This is a very stereotypically asian way of comparing phones. For a long time, Japanese manufacturers fought it out with spec lists showing the most features or the greatest spec.

Not really related to the mobiles in question, but an interesting lack of marketing talent.

Apple-Google cross licensing agreement announcement - calling it now.

Holy crap. Prior art was disregarded because the Apple patented methods couldn't run on the old hardware:

>"And in example after example, when we put it to the test, the older prior art was just that. Not that there's anything [wrong] with older prior art - but the key was that the hardware was different, the software was an entirely different methodology, and the more modern software could not be loaded onto the older example and be run without error."

Wut.