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This sounds like the meme of holding a riffle like a pistol, so your fear for getting smacked with the butt makes you impervious to recoil.

What if I told you there is an app on the market that can solve this problem using blockchain.

Just have multi-boot and before crossing set the auto-boot timeout at 0, then change it later. If you want to be safe, you can also copy and delete the boot details for your actual partition.

I leave a dummy partition with Windows, office and other shortcuts and a wallpaper of a cat during my US visits. I also have both a facebook and a gmail subscribed to all the spam you can get.

Not because I have any criminal activities but my customers deserve to have their information protected.

If authorities want to check my private and work data, they can ask nicely through a judge.

Let's not forget that criminals can also exploit a backdoor, so creating them jeopardizes public safety. Furthermore, if IT vendors agreed to create those backdoors, criminals are not forced to use those products and can still rely on homebrew or foreign tools. Later, the situation might escalate where these tools utilization is prohibited (e.g. VPN, Tor), as we see in some countries, but that shouldn't stop criminals from using them while making the public vulnerable.

A critical security issue in public cloud is that users often misunderstand what infrastructure security entails.

I've been in public cloud pitches that sold their security measures as a golden standard that made my managers believe there's no need for a security team anymore. No need for protocols or proper architecture as x cloud has enough flashy certifications.

This is also a slippery slope for US cities and states: - We invest money we don't have in an infrastructure we don't need hoping it will bring tax payers and investment so we can pay it in the future. This is mostly caused because of the 5 years out vision: I need to build stuff to get re-elected.

I wonder how much this was a case of poor planning and how much actual corporate malice.

About retreating behaviour, this was slightly the case with Mount&Blade Warband, where units would now and then flee when their moral was low, which could happen due several factors. Still I am unsure if historically anyone would be willing to charge alone against 100s of heavy cavalry units for a guy that pays ok.

It currently depends on the player or game source: - Deathwing, a multiplayer cooperative game based in the WH40K universe have an AI problem, which makes the game utterly boring as enemies will do exactly the same each time. - AI bots have the additional value to fill less played games, expanding their lifetime value. - Finally, I can't dedicate 100+ hours to become good in a multiplayer game, so I'll rather smooth the experience combining human players and AI bots.

Please, read this before commenting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_DDR

XPS 15 uses DDR4, is even thinner if possible than the MBP and has less than 4 hours of battery.

IMO MBP should be performance focused, being battery life a secondary concern, while keeping MBA as an ultrabook.

This is LPDDR vs. DDR RAM types. There was no intel processor that supported LPDDR4 during the MBP design.

If you wanted to add 32G in a laptop, then DDR4 and reduced battery life are your only options.

A good example is the XPS 15, which trades battery life for DDR4.

32GB ram laptops don't utilize LPDDR3, as in Low Power DDR3, which is used to reduce power consumption. If you're happy carrying a "portable" jet turbine, be my guest.

Mac Pros were hugely disappointing for professionals: - The big boxes were highly upgradeable, which is what a professional needs. - The trashcans are a nice concept but traded the main perk of Mac Pros for design.

The ram limitation, similar to the limitations on processor are Intel's fault, not Apple. Mac's latest version uses LPDDR3E which tops at 16G. For 32G you would need LPDDR4 or LPDDR4E and a processor compatible. http://fixmibug.com/if-the-macbook-pro-32-gb-of-ram-the-desi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_DDR https://ark.intel.com/products/88972/Intel-Core-i7-6920HQ-Pr...

I'm using it as much as possible just to push it into language.

That's the dreadful "call to action" popups every SEO "guru" recommends you to add to your Wordpress site:

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2015/09/16/10-popup-calls-to-actio...

I do hate and actively block them.

Yep, I forgot about the masses of Chinese workers currently there (e.g. Ghana). One can only hope rising Chinese standards and wages will eventually convince them to hire local instead.

Ideally for West Africa, China will move their production eventually to them, through heavily unfavorable deals and low wages. However this will help the population get trained and (economically) on their feet to start their own companies. The only problem for most countries in West Africa is that they have weak governments. While China has a despotic, unfavorable to human rights government, it is also very protective and tends to be quite partial to the national companies interests. Without it, foreign companies would steal resources and cheap mass-produce without improving the country on the long run, as it happened in other regions.

Some IDEs will convert tabs to spaces when saving and the other way around when editing, so, while your approach is interesting, not really a proof of a majority choice.

Also my beef is specially with people who don't use tabs in files like fstab, like beasts.

Could it be Hopkinsville? http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/kentucky-town-unde...

The best approach is to consider yourself a company. Your time is your commodity, your goal is to make profit. Don't give for free your commodity, understand well how is valued in the current market and how to increase that value.

Never go to ask for a bonus/raise because you "deserve" it, but because your skills are valued x in the current job market.