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But I didn't say they could do anything to a person- I said they could lie to them. It doesn't matter how sure you are that someone is a suspect for something like this, because nobody's rights are being infringed.

I don't actually have much of a problem with this. Lying to a suspect as part of an investigation isn't infringing anyone's civil liberties, unless they lie about specific things, such as telling a suspect lies about their rights.

Is the driver situation any better in Bootcamp for Nvidia than AMD? Bootcamp's drivers for the AMD 6750 in my late 2011 MBP were usually many versions behind, meaning some games it had the specs to handle wouldn't even run, and there was no way to upgrade with the OEM drivers. I ended up removing Bootcamp entirely to have more room for the now quite extensive selection of OSX-compatible games on Steam.

For click and drag, don't use your index finger to both keep the button depressed AND move the pointer. On a regular trackpad you'd click the left button with index finger and move the pointer by moving middle finger over the trackpad; you can do the same thing here by clicking in with index finger and then moving middle finger.

Other than click and drag I never use the physical click, tap to click is where it's at. OSX registers tapping much, much better than any trackpad I've tried with Windows.

Usually I don't find myself clicking on my Macbook trackpad anyway. I usually just tap, plenty of precision that way, plus OSX tends to have larger click targets than Windows and lots of gestures (especially with BetterTouchTool) that make precision less important.

My only issue is click-and-drag, but that was at least somewhat alleviated when I learned to hold the click with my index finger and do the drag by moving my middle finger (which is similar to what I'd do with a trackpad with dedicated mouse buttons anyway) instead of just using my index finger.

I'm pretty sure the 'Half-Blood Prince' thing is supposed to sound racist in-universe, as that's someone of mixed heritage (magic and non-magic) referring to himself self-deprecatingly in a universe where racism against non-magical heritage is very much a real thing and a term like 'mudblood' is considered an extremely offensive racial slur.

Even assuming 2 is a good idea, I have no idea how that could be implemented. A major desirable property of a good password hashing algorithm is that slightly differing inputs should produce wildly differing hashes, and the login authenticator should only ever know the password hash and not the password itself.

Regular employee is different from contract, as contractor's taxes will be (much) higher and you have benefits such as health insurance included in your salary. I bet that $41/hr as a regular employee goes a lot farther than $50/hr as a contractor. Though that does still seem underpaid for 10 years' experience.

Installing up to date dev tools is easily done on Mac with Homebrew.

Could be a talent acquisition (not saying that's likely to be the case, just an example of why someone would buy them even with a poor business model).

I don't see this article actually supporting the assertion that career fairs are declining. In the technical majors at my school (UMass Amherst class of '14), they were the first steps to getting internships and jobs for almost everyone who got them. Nearly every CS junior and senior, and many-to-most sophomores, went at least once, if not twice, per year.

That website is unusable in FF on Windows.

...and maybe that's why most popular coding fonts are monospaced?

As someone who used Windows 3.1 for years and now uses Powershell on Windows 7 every day at work, I'm ashamed to admit I had no idea.

But then that goes back to funkyy's point: there may be lots of unexpected things developers can do with it, but none of them so far are things customers care about. Atmospheric modeling? Really cool! Do customers care? Heck no.

I'm betting some combination of procedural generation and scanning tech a la Kinect will start taking a lot of the workload off the artists. This has already begun to some extent, with many if not most AAA titles using procedural generation of terrain and vegetation.

The algorithms to control grass reacting may be difficult to write, but that only has to be done once. You could as well have said ten years ago that it would never be cost-effective to create photo-realistic CG films, but that has been pretty much accomplished at this point, and game developers are already borrowing techniques from films.

And fortunately in most use-cases, we'd prefer a spacecraft to have more upload bandwidth to Earth than download bandwidth from Earth. The largest data NASA would send to the craft would probably be software updates, megabytes or a few gigabytes at most, while the craft might want to send thousands of images and even videos, gigabytes or terabytes of data, limited only by its energy budget and length of transmission window. (Note: I don't work in this field either).

> The Gitmo people are prisoners of war or some such. So, they are not to be handled in the US legal system. So, for how they are being handled, "lawful" in the US legal system makes little or no sense.

Prisoners of war have legal rights too, under treaties to which the US is signatory. The Gitmo prisoners are not receiving those rights either. They're in a legal no-man's-land.

It's not Chrome's fault Apple doesn't put a middle button on their mice like everyone else. Though personally I prefer 3-finger tap to using buttons at all on a PC laptop trackpad.

Even if Chrome always opened external links in a new tab with a left click, you'd still want middleclick functionality to browse the web effectively; I constantly open multiple tabs from the same domain- for instance, to open a HN comments section without navigating away from the front page.

Earth will be a few pixels at best. The pale blue dot photo has basically a single pixel of Earth, though Voyager was farther away than Cassini at the time (past the orbit of Saturn) and its cameras weren't as good.

Cmd-click. On a Macbook trackpad or magic mouse you can also set three-finger tap to middle click (with third-party tweaks like BetterTouchTool).