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Right, exactly. The article does contain the phrase "water ice" a few times.

"Ice water" would be something that is served in the restaurants on Mars.

In this case it sounds like it was the child's fault though? Reading the article I can't quite agree with the notion of "she killed the child". Rather, the child killed himself. He suddenly darted out into the street in front of a moving vehicle. So to me the accident sounds like the child's fault rather than the driver's.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to fit the whole table on my screen without horizontal scrolling, LOL... tried resizing fonts and maximizing the browser...

...do I need a 5000-pixel-wide screen to view this properly or something? heh

And an interesting follow-on question would be: of the OS patches now being implemented which sometimes cause a performance hit, will that code later be able to detect when it's running on a "fixed" processor? So that it can turn off the unneeded extra protections when running on a newer chip?

For balance, it's worth pointing out that many law-enforcement agencies now use the term "sex trafficking" to describe cases that are merely prostitution. This case appears to be no exception. Further reading about this case by Elizabeth Nolan Brown in Reason Magazine:

http://reason.com/archives/2016/09/09/the-truth-about-us-sex...

For balance, it's worth pointing out that many law-enforcement agencies now use the term "sex trafficking" to describe cases that are merely prostitution. This case appears to be no exception. Further reading about this case by Elizabeth Nolan Brown in Reason Magazine:

http://reason.com/archives/2016/09/09/the-truth-about-us-sex...

A few years ago I wondered whether this happens in the Americas too. I live in the US and have eaten Oreo cookies throughout my life. One time I was in Canada and bought some Oreos there, and to my surprise the flavor was quite different. It was a markedly different recipe and I wondered why.

Yep, it's still like that now, too! I was on The Price is Right a few months ago, and I got called to "come on down" to be a contestant.

Before the show, producer Stan Blits greets every member of the audience while they're waiting in line. He chats with each audience member (for about 20 seconds) to gauge their liveliness & enthusiasm. As he's chatting with each person, he gives a subtle hand signal to an intern who is standing behind him with a notepad. For each audience member who he thinks might make a good contestant, the intern writes down the person's name on the notepad.

After the audience is seated, he continues to refine the list by standing on the side of the stage and observing the potential contestants in their seats. He checks to see which ones are still energetic and cheering while they're sitting in the audience too.

I just now took a look at Packet's web site and their data center locations. They categorize each location as either "core" or "edge", but I couldn't find anything to indicate what those terms mean in this context. Are you familiar with that distinction?

The location nearest me is an "edge", not a "core". I wonder what I would be missing out on, if it's not "core".

The full quote was "The US has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea."

The word "if" was probably the key factor here. Since his threat was conditional, that most likely puts it into a different category than outright threats.

Hey, did you mean Reduced Redundancy (not Infrequent Access)?

I just noticed that the new pricing for Standard (2.3¢) is now less than the pricing for Reduced Redundancy (2.4¢)! So there appears to be no reason to use Reduced Redundancy anymore.

Would love to get some tips on this! My top questions are: (1) how to evade detection of this by Upwork? (2) how to ensure payment from the client without the escrow service?

We use BuddyNS (https://www.buddyns.com/) as our secondary DNS provider. They use AXFR to automatically sync their servers with your primary DNS servers.

You just need a primary DNS vendor which supports AXFR, such as DNS Park (https://www.dnspark.com/).

Ah, I think I found an answer:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

And yep it appears they started with primarily phishing.

Boy after several of these types of incidents, this really creates the impression that a hacker can just arbitrarily break into anyone's e-mail account that he wants to. (This particular article mentions a hack of someone's personal Yahoo e-mail account, and another person's Gmail account, plus their DNC work e-mail accounts)

This seems like magic; I mean what methods are they using? Is it mostly phishing, if phishing is really that effective? Scratchin my head here as to how they can just grab any account they want.

This, times a million!

Oh, and the weird music. I'm not sure I need 15 seconds of annoying jazz improvisation at full volume between segments either. But that is indeed part of the "signature sound" :)

Can someone do one of these on monads too? Heh...

I'm American, and I sometimes ask myself that too: I catch myself talking loudly and I have no earthly idea why. Probably because that's what everyone else is doing!

Hmmm, I think the premise is way off-base here. People don't even hate Comic Sans... they hate how often it's used inappropriately.

The article tries to construct this huge overwrought analysis of the font itself, but the font is fine. It's the tone-deaf way that people use Comic Sans that causes ridicule.

Is this a big deal? I can't tell whether it's a big deal. I hope it's a big deal!

Don't forget "leverage" instead of "use", "orthogonal" instead of "unrelated", and "onboarding" instead of "training"!

To play devil's advocate:

Mr. Cook expressed concern that "the government could intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone's microphone or camera without your knowledge".

As I read this I wondered, "what harm would actually happen if that occurred"? If the government did read my messages and get my health records & financial data and track my whereabouts, I can't think of anything bad that would actually happen as a result of that.

Is there anything specific that I should be worried about in that scenario?

The author doesn't say why this is worrisome. He just says he's worried "that the PKI front-end (auth.startssl.com) is now hosted within a Chinese Antivirus Company, who uses a Chinese ISP for 2 months and that there hasn't been any news around".

The article could certainly use a bit more connecting-the-dots to show how he gets from "they're hosted in China" to "I won't use them anymore".

Funny, I was wondering the same thing. I use the AWS console all the time and have to scratch my head when people say how horrific it is.

I presume it's because some people just enjoy criticizing stuff. :)

I heartily agree! I do it all the time.

The only stuff I really downvote is uncivil comments / mean people.

Heh, this reminded me of when Z-100 used to say: "if it's too loud... you're too old."

Uh-oh, the attacks started again a few minutes ago:

http://status.linode.com/incidents/mkcgnmjmnnln

oh, whoops...

True... but by pulling jQuery from Google's CDN for example, you theoretically save page-load time anyway. If multiple sites pull from the same CDN, then it's already cached in the user's browser.

At first I was horrified: from the headline I thought we were predicting that vertical videos would become the norm for a generation.

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

(whew)