tomflack

Hah, my first thought is "humans also make the government" and I know which one I'd optimize first... sorry about the snark though.

> Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3, setting off an annual ritual where Americans (who don’t live in Arizona or Hawaii) and residents of 78 other countries including Canada (but not Saskatchewan), most of Europe, Australia and New Zealand turn their clocks back one hour.

I find it hard to take this solution seriously when they can't even get the basic facts right. I'm sure this is some kind of argumentative fallicy but Australia's DST started in October and we put our clocks forward one hour, because we're in the Southern Hemisphere and heading in to summer. This semi-makes the article's point about confusion... but really computers have fixed all that confusion for me anyway.

No, because working schedules are based on the clock face.

Looks like a standard catalogue photograph to me. Opportunity wasted.

Is there a way, given consensus among the bitcoin community, to mark these coins as "bad" and effectively destroy their value?

Right now I'm listening to "Chronojigga" a Jay-Z/Chronotrigger mix. IT's great.

This occidental fascination with Japanese sex is embarrassing. Or perhaps I just feel that these "reports" don't lend enough academic gravitas to the subject and end up being weird, discomforting vouyeristic pieces that conflate several different phenomena without the rigour the topic deserves.

If there is one argument it's impossible to win, it's an argument with people trying to impose their own "original" or "traditional" word usage over the more colloquial understanding of it's meaning.

While I appreciate what you're trying to say, it seems obvious that "viewing" and "editing the content of" a website are quite different concepts. If you've been told to no longer edit the content of my website and you continue to do so, it would be hard to argue against a charge of unauthorized access.

I had registered with Microsoft my copy of Windows 98, and they mailed me a CD with an upgrade to SE for free when it was released.

> And setting up transcoding to mp4 just made me realize that there are better uses of my time than dealing with such piddly issues. I'd rather be learning rust for example than dealing with streaming/transcoding issues to my phone.

AFAIK that's not an issue? I have VLC on two iOS devices and you open the app, turn on the internal server, go to your web browser and drag/drop files in to it. VLC on iOS plays every format the desktop application plays.

World first? I've seen a cake delivery company by drone in Shanghai months ago.

http://www.popsci.com.au/technology/shanghai-company-claims-...

Then it seems they were grounded

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380095/China-ground...

Perhaps he means used these systems through upgrade/transfer installs via a firewire system transfer or similar

Partially related: Is it technically possible to "blacklist" the bitcoins that the FBI seized given a great enough consensus, to make their value effectively worthless?

OP's logic I presume, is that certain government services aren't available for that time so why is he being asked to pay for them?

They don't need to pull anything, just have their lawyers tell Google's lawyers that their iMessage trademark is being infringed. Gone.

They collect them in OK, CA and GA. Probably more. I'm not even American and that took four seconds to find on Google.

I'm not sure what you're asking here? The articles are sinocentric in the same manner Medium articles are typically occidental in nature.

> And the government has announced they will rip up the cable and give everyone 25-50Mbps down and 4-5Mbps up.

The government needs to re-negotiate it's deal with Telstra, and I expect the HFC network remaining with Telstra as a wholesaler monopoly will be a part of that.

No-one has said they're going to "rip up" the HFC cable. It was to be decommissioned under the old NBN plan and it's future hasn't been decided under the new.

I can only think to keep costs down. But it does seem odd.

It's indeed VERY different to "opt-out" as they had stated. What a mistake!

Breaking news: on ABC News 24 right now Abbott just said he doesn't support a filter and got the policy wrong.

He's referring to the AMCA blacklist, which while not a filter in the sense we usually discuss is a kind of internet censorship.

If the Liberal/National Coalition manages to achieve a majority in the Senate, I think this will be the time we see a filter become law.

How long until their regional affiliates update their design? For example:

http://au.yahoo.com (Yahoo! 7) http://www.yahoo.co.jp/ (Yahoo Japan)

I really feel that while these spinoffs seemed like a good idea at the time (and in the case of Yahoo Japan were very successful spinoffs) having separate businesses with different branding will come back and hurt Yahoo! soon.

...licensing the KitKat brand from Nestle. Moral quandary remains.

Market share vs units sold. One is sliding down (market share) while units sold are still going up as the pie gets larger.

Apple didn't always have a low market share and built up a huge importance for developers before their share started to slide.

There are still millions of iPhones sold every year, even if they're a smaller piece of the overall pie.

Contrast to Windows Phone which never had any kind of market share or importance, and has to fight up from absolutely nothing.

That's the difference between iPhone's small market share and WP's small share.

The only way that Windows Phone ties to Microsoft's enterprise offerings better than iPhone is the name. Literally everything else can be done on iOS, often better.

What's the difference between an automated train failing to stop at the end of a line in a system with 200 stations to an automated train failing to stop at the end of a line in a system with two stations?

Of course in the rest of the system if can be incredibly complex to ensure safety, but that's not where the accident you're relying on to make your case occurred.