mikx007

All we need is something like sci-hub for repair manuals...

and thats why I drive Chevy Bolt!

If you are in Chicago, think 6k rings, 60k cars and 600k houses.

What about cicular saw with diamond blade? You can cut cement, ceramics and granite with it... What about demolition hammer or hammer drill?

I dont think thats true. Unfortunatelly I dont see mortality rates like in Seattle reported in other retirement facilities.

what if there exist ultimate limit to knowledge itself and laws of universe that can be discovered? it would imply that any civilization that reaches that point will have nothing to gain from communication with other civilizations.

If you live in IL, check out Han's System. They sort of have the same look and feel as wierdstuff warehouse.

That's a very good point considering all medical records are covered by HIPAA laws.

I propose to organize and for 1 week limit bandwidth to all of our websites to 56k to FCC IP block. I believe it will send much stronger message than any other form of protests. Google, wikipedia, netflix, amazon, facebook, linkedin and everyone else join and show everyone where you stand.

One possible dystopian scenario... Some time in the future chimera animals are mass produced in special farms and any surpluses sold as food. Basically humans start consuming human meat. In a few years cannibalism becomes acceptable ...

What would stop one or couple of apple engineers from creating a backdoor and then selling a "unlock service" trough some foreign intermediary making $1 mil each time?

What if FDA on behalf of CIA withheld drug interaction information so that CIA could "eliminate" various targets more efficiently? Would that be OK?

“The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.” ― Aldous Huxley

Can the government force a private business entity to lie to their customer? If not, then why can't Microsoft just setup some sort of service/status report that basically outputs "no" if and only if the government did not access data and "unknown" otherwise.

Or Centennial? :)

Assuming bugs are never intentional and mostly random... Maybe instead of one autopilot software, self driving cars of the future will have several, developed by completely different teams. Then a self driving car can take some sort of average or most common output instruction (thus minimizing the risk of random bugs/edge cases...etc.)

The grass is always greener on the other side. I have another story... I started off as Unix admin, a programmer, about 15 years ago became a technical manager, director, vp and so on.

Frankly, looking back at it, I wish I never made that choice and stayed software developer or admin. Trust me, its much more fun.Unfortunately it is a one way street. Paperwork, schmoozing to get funding for your team and sitting in various meetings all day, not so much...

Sandlot Solutions has ceased operations. They were down to a skeleton crew as of last week, looking for last-minute funding to maintain core operations, but I was told that the board had already voted to close down if nothing came through as of Friday.

I am pretty sure Apple has enough pocket change to buy both of them with their morning coffee.

Maybe there is a way.... Let’s say every person gets a public and private key. Private key is only known to the individual. The only exception: your private key is immediately encrypted with public keys of large number of random strangers (10K?) and in its encrypted form sent to some government registry.

You encrypt all of your content with your own public key and have reasonable expectation of privacy as long as at least one of those 10K people feels you deserve your privacy.

If you happened to be a terrorist and the consensus of 10K strangers who encrypted your private key is to let the government snoop on you, they can choose to decrypt your private key and turn it over to the government.

I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years they started to inject ads.