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For a while there, when built-in webcams weren't quite as common, my employer would either remove the camera completely or, if that wasn't possible, they would smash the lens and sensor with a metal punch.

They eventually quit (now we can use Lync to do video calls, even) but a lot of people now put little sliding windows over their cameras (you can get them at conferences these days, branded with the Splunk logo or whoever's giving them out)

The Department of Education sold my loan to a private company within a year or so of graduation. No rate change or anything, I just started logging in on a different web site to pay. Same thing with my wife and with many people I know.

Forcing fluids into underground cavities has proven to be so popular in other energy fields :D

Don't forget "flyover states", to be uttered in the same tone of disgust as "southerner"!

That's a pretty good comparison, I like it!

Since it's intended for an art installation, any shortcomings in the actual functionality of the device can be excused with the magical phrase "we're trying to start a dialog / get people thinking about X, not actually do X"

> Unfortunately, in the US the alternative to government power is corporate power.

What's the alternative elsewhere? Warlord power?

It's a little off-topic, but this was one of the few websites where I've had to shrink the text to make it readable. I'm not complaining, completely the opposite--it just reminded me of an article the other day that said it's better to be more accessible by default, and for instance my dad would have probably been pretty happy with the default text size.

Good! Have you heard anything back?

Tendercare Pediatrics in Huntington Park, CA

Oh, a pediatrics clinic, very nice (redacted image because it contained GASP addresses and names, like one might find in a phone book)

> Here you come to find highly opinionated and more-often-than-not wrong commenters.

You can find those on slashdot too!

I'd hardly call it desolate, it's about 2 miles from the edge of Albuquerque and pretty busy most times.

Neat, though.

I've also played a little bit with Devuan, which is basically just Debian without systemd, and it seemed to work pretty well.

Installing it is actually pretty easy, because they provide a reasonably straightforward console-based "graphical" installer, rather than pretending that copy-pasting a bunch of commands off the [Gentoo|Arch] wiki will teach you anything beside how to install [Gentoo|Arch].

Hey, and if he moves away again, it'll be white flight and he can feel guilty yet again!

This repo worked for me on a modern Debian install: https://github.com/floren/ching

Good old alma mater, some of those guys really like coffee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffenol

"Dark Dungeons" is also the name of a rather good "retroclone" of the Basic D&D Rules Cyclopedia, which a lot of people consider to be the best rule set. Dark Dungeons also does a really good job of organizing the rules and fixing conflicts.

"Darker Dungeons" is a similar concept but with some mechanical modifications the author thought were sensible.

http://www.gratisgames.webspace.virginmedia.com/darkdungeons...

How are you finding so much Kraft? Are you shopping at a 7-11? Even here in Albuquerque, not particularly known as a mecca of fancy cheeses, the vast majority of cheese is not Kraft.

One trick to remember is that a lot of grocery stores have cheese in two places: near the milk and butter they have basics like Tillamook or the usually-decent store brand for cheddar, pepper jack, etc. Then over closer to the deli, there's a refrigerated table with the better cheeses.

> Landed gentry kept grays in cages [...] A Mr. Brocklehurst, who had brought over gray squirrels from America, released two on his property near Cheshire in central England.

> Parker had said he wanted me to shoot the squirrel — that grays were in Britain was, after all, my fault as an American — and I did not want to.

I'd say it's more the fault of the squeamish toff standing next to him, given that his ancestors may well have been among the original importers of the greys.

Poe's law strikes again with this post...

Because on HN it's considered poor form to say "I think you're full of shit" or "I don't like what you're saying", instead it's better to say "got a source?". It casts doubt on the truthfulness or provenance of the original poster's assertion, while still looking polite.

Ah, but you see, if you redefine violence to include "anything I dislike"...

He considers this a "whitepaper", rather than the more accurate "blog post" (see the Documents section on his website)

Wasn't there an article some years back that pointed out how whenever someone dares criticize Apple, they're always careful to mention how they use Apple products everywhere and Apple stuff is still very nice, but please Mr. Jobs if you could refrain from deleting everything on my phone when I plug it in I'd be ever so grateful...

> (obscured by the upper receiver of the assault weapon)

You mean the stock of the semi-automatic rifle which happens to be scary and black?

Visibility has really taken a nosedive. Over the last few years I've daily driven a 1962 Studebaker and a 1986 Ford Crown Victoria and both of them had incredible visibility compared to almost any car on the road today. Parallel parking was incredibly easy in the Studebaker especially, because you could actually see the back end of the car out the (massive) rear window.

> It's not cool to criticize startups in silicon valley because that's what the place stands for.

Fucking what? Would you say nobody in Hollywood should ever judge a movie script because the place is about making movies? "Well, whoever wrote this script obviously put a lot of effort into it, so here $50 million"

The interesting thing about the modern web developer is that they don't know jack or shit about HTTP.