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adespoton,

Perplexing.

adespoton,

Basically, people are more aware of how they, personally, are affected by the economy.

The economy in general is doing better, but the majority of citizens are able to apply less and less of that to the things they value, and they see more and more of it being funnelled to the already wealthy.

adespoton,

TIL acetaminophen isn’t a worldwide thing :)

The whole Tylenol thing is because they’re the ones who originally patented it. Same for Advil and ibuprofen.

adespoton,

Once upon a time print shops would only accept files in Quark Xpress format. Eventually, they came to accept InDesign documents too. They have licenses for the software and workflows and toolchains set up to integrate those files into their existing prepress and press systems.

LaTeX is purely for academic markup for postscript printing. VivaDesigner and its kind? Only niche and hobby layout and print.

That said, I only share in PDF now, so I use other software for the layout phases and don’t care that it isn’t portable to other shops.

adespoton,

So I guess Trump is no longer allowed to vote in New York?

I presume Florida allows NY felons to vote though…,

adespoton,

I miss the roflcopter.

adespoton,

I was with you up until the “so fast under Modi” bit.

Modi was chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and has been PM since then — a decade.

It’s been a slow and predictable train wreck with a lot of momentum.

Meanwhile, he dismantled the caste system but it’s still going strong with only the exceptions being celebrated.

adespoton,

My attempts at finding a good Ferengi fungi came up empty. I would have thought someone would have done that by now.

So that leaves me with the awful “the spores are strong with that image.”

adespoton,

Young Canadians don’t hate Canada; they hate the boneheaded ideas thought up in Parliament and they hate that they’ve been priced out of owning a part of Canada.

If you don’t have a voice or land, and see no hope that you ever will, why would you be happy with how things are?

adespoton,

Ah; but do they have plans /not/ to phase out v2?

Because if they don’t, phasing it out will eventually be the easiest way to maintain their codebase and performance.

adespoton,

If you think modern Zionism is about religion in anything but name, or that Palestinian nationalism is about Islam in anything but name, what you believe is even more questionable than what they believe.

If all religion vanished overnight, the same people would be fighting over the same land with many of the same arguments, but something else substituted for the religion.

Tribalism knows no borders.

adespoton,

That also sounds like a great way to strip police and politicians of all soft power over time.

Do they realize that there are harder but astronomically better ways to manage a protesting public?

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adespoton,

Dual PIN is a great idea; I’d also love an emergency PIN that invalidates the token silently (so you can enter it under duress).

adespoton,

What this shows is that Trump’s entire team doesn’t really understand what Libertarian is. Kennedy seemed to understand, but his politics obviously don’t align.

Then again, personally I put Libertarianism in the same camp as Communism as far as ideologies that are great in theory, but handwave the human factor away. The trick is in how to avoid authoritarianism while still being realistic about how humans behave individually and in groups.

adespoton,

I guess my suggestion wouldn’t be useful then… I was a GrandCentral customer in 2006. When Google bought them I became a Google Voice customer and still am. It’s been convenient to have the same US numbers for 18 years. I wouldn’t run anything private through the service though.

adespoton,

Nope. Bill left MS in 2008 and Windows 7 came out in 2009.

Also the joke left out Windows 10x, AKA 11.

And for some reason, it includes NT and Win2k, but leaves out all the other Server versions (2003 through 23H2).

adespoton,

Indeed. If true, it means Apple’s technology doesn’t work the way they claim. Which is a really big issue.

adespoton,

Not quite; the contents all go in a bag labeled “trash” — someone still has to remove it from the locker.

adespoton,

This isn’t helped by most websites reinventing themselves every couple of years so the old links 404 even though the content still exists.

adespoton,

I’m currently using my 2008 MacBook Pro. For basic web browsing, text editing and music playing, it works great. And for other stuff it handles remote desktop sessions just fine.

On the original topic, I can’t say that I’ve seen any Chinese vehicles on the road or for sale… is the government trying to get out in front of that one?

The big issue is bicycles — every bicycle (especially the electric ones) has a bunch of components only available from China, with other manufacturers priced out of the market years ago.

adespoton,

A train is a collection of rolling railcars propelled by one or more locomotives. These are individual self-powered railcars.

So no, there’s no train here. Just monorail pods that will get congested as density increases.

The whole concept of a train is that all the cars move together and the only congestion is at the switching yards, where it can be optimized.

adespoton,

How else are they going to win the rail pod challenge?

adespoton,

Anything faster would be a safety issue.

adespoton,

They may need to rename The Progress Report at this rate….

adespoton,

I’ll be interested to find out when the intrusion happened and what the target was. So far all we know is when the intrusion was discovered and when it was announced to whom.

adespoton,

I drive a hard bargain.

adespoton,

(Im)plausible deniability.

If a crack squad flies in, kills him, and flies home, that’s a pretty good indication India was involved.

By convincing a local group to do it, India can pretend they had nothing to do with it.

adespoton,

Man thinking about the Roman empire clock now reset to 0 (again).

adespoton,

Indeed. What about returning to Tims being a Canadian company and serving actual freshly made donuts? And as others have said, why not bring back mugs? And maybe sell travel mugs from the counter and allow discounted refills, and do away with travel lids altogether? It’s not like those plastic single use lids were a part of the original Tim’s experience.

While we’re at it, we can close down the drive through; that’s not original Tim’s either.

adespoton,

“We don’t have a contract with our customers. They can choose to shop elsewhere tomorrow if they don’t like the offer that we’re giving,” he said.

Interesting choice of words. I spend over $500 a shopping trip, and am a PC Express member (which means I have a contract with them).

I haven’t been shopping with them already for a few weeks because of some issues I experienced at my local store. I don’t blame the store either; I directly blame management at head office who have been methodically stripping power away from local managers over the past four years.

adespoton,

You cross posted twice?

adespoton,

If you use it for everything, when you use it ceases to be useful information for data gatherers.

It’s why companies have data retention policies. That way they can’t be accused of intentionally destroying data to hide things, because they destroy ALL data like that.

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adespoton,

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adespoton,

Indeed; it doesn’t matter how hard those Albertans are working; most of that money came from selling off a national resource that happens to be in Alberta. Albertans just get to benefit from it.

adespoton,

I’ve used it to tweak a speech I was writing to make it more appropriate to my intended audience….

adespoton,

The company I work for has acquired a number of small companies over the years; the result has been a mixed bag. In one case, the original product and employees were dropped completely, only retaining the IP. In a number of other cases, the original teams and products were kept intact with cross-over between products plus a huge boost in funding and customers over the years. In most cases, the companies were absorbed into existing management structures and the employees and technologies deployed inside the existing product line, sometimes with a few things that didn’t match the company strategy sold off or spun off into their own company.

Personally, I consider all the acquisitions except the single case where everything was abandoned to be a success; in that case, the exec in charge of acquisition was made redundant when everything else shut down.

adespoton,

He sounds like a professional fall guy to me; who hired him? I bet THEY were the real ones to blame for what happened.

adespoton,

The big one for me is: how do we preserve online games? The ones with a server-side component?

Even bnetd had issues, although I think that time is over; but what about when we the public never had access to the game core in the first place?

adespoton,

That’s a lot of people flipping the bird….

adespoton,

In the eye? So it’s all calm and sunny?

adespoton,

Wait… AI has its own sector now?

adespoton,

So this is saying we’ve been growing the employable workforce faster than we’ve been creating jobs. Or is it saying that we’ve net lost jobs? It’s hard to tell from the way it was phrased.

It also seems to be implying that existing jobs were lost while new jobs were created for immigrants. It’s being very careful to imply that without directly saying it, which makes me question whether that’s actually going on.

adespoton,

Another one? Or is this just the rest of the country catching up with GTA and Metro Vancouver?

adespoton,

I saw a user’s hash just this week — it was in a ransom note. They required their victims to sign up for the service and text a code to their userhash to kick off sending the attacker cryptocurrency so they’d send a decryption key and not make stolen data public.

Other than that use case, it hasn’t picked up many users that I’m aware of.

adespoton,

So? Tor is in a similar boat.

Government agencies need secure crypto to hide their activities, and it doesn’t work if they’re the only ones using the technology.

adespoton,

Not to mention, SMS was removed because it’s inherently insecure at every level. Keeping it would mean there’d be an insecure side channel into the protocol. While it’s a useful onboarding mechanism, it can also be abused — and was. So eventually it got removed to prefer privacy and security over convenience.

adespoton,

It’s about time. This is something that should have been enacted 50 years ago.

adespoton,

The biggest things that happened are media hubris and corporate consolidation. Secondary things are population increase and offshore investment.

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