More than that, congestion pricing. So as the airspace gets more crowded during peak times, a toll is charged automatically to anyone flying.

Of course, there will always be a rouge element that refuses to install and use a required chip to enable all of this registration and toll charges. Just like there are millions of unregistered cars with unlicensed drivers in them today. But, unless you are driving an old drone, or built or modified an existing on to disable the system, you should be good.

If you are referring to the content that's on, you have an argument. If you are talking about the picture quality, you may or may not be correct. If you can get a signal, TV is much better than it was in the 70's even before the digital switch over. However, with the switch over, there are some locations like mine in a vast sea of a suburban sprawl in a major tv market that *had* good signal before the switch over and decent picture quality, but lost all channels except one after the switch over.

But the analog static, audio pop, v sync and general waviness is gone. Its as good as anything you can get from any internet source ( netflix, hulu, etc).

The 5110 does not look like a flip phone to me...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5110

StarTac FTW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC

Everything was done in the open, look at the mailing lists to see what transpired. It was all in the open. Systemd is a better solution. Making it init by default is a sane choice. Other init systems still work, but giving devs a single one to ensure works makes their lives easier.

Systemd isn't invasive, its fundamental. Its the cgroups manager which provides an api for cgroups for other things to use. That just makes sense to have init be the cgroups manager.

That is a unique argument that I have not heard. I don't find it to be very persuasive. Journald is better than syslog and other alternatives in many ways. But it is a change, and as such there will always be people who cry "change for no reason!!!" because they don't see or understand the benefit from the change and have to make changes to their existing work flow. There are reasons, and they are documented. The only relevant argument against has been existing tooling needing syslog.

Sadly, Journalistic integrity seems to be of the exclusive domain of the NYT and possibly the Economist. Everything else is shades of grey. I typically don't expect much from any other source. Good journalistic writing is a skill that must be learned and honed. Its not found on any random websites that happen to post news articles.

Getting yelled at for breaking a userspace app and or kernel debugging features is kind of a mark of honor. Alan Cox got reamed for breaking emacs a while back. Not wholly undeserved, but its kind of Linus' role to protect userspace from kernel devs and kernel devs from userspace. Its easy to get tunnel vision and only care about a particular deep logical problem and find a way to fix it, but in such a way as it breaks compatibility. Of course when egos are involved, sometimes people don't put the finest foot forward, but eventually cooler heads prevail and solutions are found. In Kay's case, it was a fight over boot params namespace. I kind of agreed with him on that, but the change they did make really killed kernel debugging, and so while he might have been technically correct, it was the wrong way to do that due to the impact.

When you have a large number of machines, the odds of you hitting the flaws inherent to sysv init and upstart become more frequent. systemd has a large number of "Proper" solutions to things that sysv and upstart work for 98% of the time. It also has a number of things that make administering systems easier, faster ( if you take the time to learn them instead of sticking your head in the sand and complaining about having to learn new things).

What do you mean by " the interrupt for boot" ? If its not getting to grub, or gummiboot that's not a systemd issue. Sounds like the update screwed up things. Rather than systemd. He's probably trying sysvinit style debugging techniques for systemd.

The article pretty much deals with this aspect. Endpoints are easy targets, TOR isn't perfect, etc.

But, if you aren't already a target of the NSA, but are going to do something you don't want them tracing back to you ( like leaking NSA secrets) ,and you know that they are capable of ( because you already work for them and know what their state of the art techniques), then it works great!!!111.

Of if you just want "casual secrecy" Then it works great too.. What is casual secrecy, you might ask? You know when you have a boring life, but want to pretend that your secrets aren't boring, and in the act frustrate the heck out of any one who wants to communicate with you. Its a great way to lose friends.

I love systemd, but I have to be honest, the logs are binary. There are tools for getting text out of them, which can then be piped into any cli text tool you want. you can also run syslog in parallel, if you'd like. But as I said earlier, binary isn't bad when the format is well documented.

https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/systemd/journal-files/

I really wonder what's behind the binary log complaints. If the format is open and the file gets corrupted, its still easily to figure out the content. Its not encrypted

True statement.

launchd inspired upstart.
Pottering wanted to modify upstart, but the copyright assignment wasn't cool with him or his company. So, systemd is really pottering's rewrite/refactoring of upstart.

So yes, its very much Mac like in that regard. But on the plus side, the config files are pretty straight forward ini files ( ok it has a little MS inspiration too).

Such a bizarre statement. MS didn't change Nokia phones hardly at all. They didn't even try. If they didn't want to change them they could have simply not purchased the company. It anything MS was too slow in developing windows phone 8, which according to reviews doesn't suck. But it came well after the iphone and andorid platforms stopped sucking. They were *years* late. The fell asleep at the wheel of inovation, and got crushed. having once had the best mobile os in winmobile circa 2003-2004.

I think it could be done better. There is nothing inherently bad about CLI for things like regedit. But it would have to be done better than the gui itself, which is also pretty terrible.

Well, I think its a little strange, but some Dos commands do work in cygwin like:

dir
ipconfig
regsvr32

others like ver do not work. Maybe some of those are built in and not separate executables?

I did at one point rely on Cygwin being able to create bash shell scripts that worked with windows executables, but that was years ago.

To be fair, the climate is changing, yes. But those projections also include increased population using that water too. Its not a static projection.

Yeah, I'm not sure what the end game will be. More investment in the great lakes reigon, or more diversion of water from the great lakes.

Well, luckily the laser has not been installed yet. So its a tomorrow class laser, rather than a today class laser.

Just give them the coordinates, and let them shoot from space. That way you can have a plausible alibi. Maybe like commit a minor crime at the same time so the cops are your alibi. Instead of the cops going, Hmm, which house with a giant laser melted those cars?

MBA logic: these laptops will be more expensive than most non-pixel chromebooks, which means there may be more of a profit per unit. I don't know why they have to dedcide between chrome and windows. They just make the processors and let OEM's put them in whatever systems they want.

Also, key quote from article:

PC makers are considering the new Carrizo chips for Windows laptops, not for Chromebooks, said Adam Kozak, marketing manager at AMD.

So, its OEM's and not AMD specifically? Maybe. Other parts talk about all the windows 10 specific stuff they did with the chips. So who knows. In any case, I prefer to run linux on real laptops with more on board storage space than chromebooks. So maybe this is a win for me or at least the windows tax status quo? Not sure. I guess I'll have to wait to see what the secure boot settings are.

and one for space too.

Well, for the record. With At&t uverse they have a decent kids package without ESPN. I like ESPN, but not at the price of packages that include it. I'd pay $5 a month during football season for it, but that's about it.

They pretty much have a 50/50 chance, right? I'd guess they're probably right. They can date specific mutations pretty well, I don't know if I'd risk my life on them being correct, but it sounds like it might be correct. It would be interesting to see their methodology applied against other migrations to see if that also confirms with what archaeology believes.

With any single study, a "that's an interesting result" is a fair response. Let other peers take a look at it and dissect it.

Sadly, there are more out there than their should be. The consequences of such issues should be relatively minor. Maybe the program will crash or display something wrong. It probably doesn't matter fro most apps.

There needs to be a moderation option for "syntax Error"

Not sure. I always Imagined that as automation goes up, the wealth gap also goes up. As those with capitol spend it in such a way that it does not benefit laborers. Rich Guy A buys ipad from Rich Guy B. Ipad completely automated, zero humans involved in the design or manufacturer of said Ipad. Rich Guy B just owns the robots that did everything.

Of course that's just a gut reaction. I'd have to do some modeling to see how that would work in practice. But historically there was a dynamic between labor and capital that lead to the betterment of all. With devalued labor, I'm not so sure that still holds. We may return to a middle ages style of serfdom or worse.

Not sure, I'm not well versed in the history of airlines or cars. I kind of wish I was. I was kind of guessing that it might have been packard?

Really? Its usually pretty simple. I have a bad habit of sneaking looks at other random people's computers in public places. Like what are they doing at starbucks/mc donalds? Why are they traveling? What does an enterprise spreadsheet look like? Are they using macros? So many interesting things one could learn by glancing over. I'd probably notice he was doing something cool. Probably not enough to think " hey he's trying to take over the flight system" , but enough to try and find a way to start an innocuous conversation with him to try and figure it out. Like: Is that xnomad? I've never seen such a nice setup before... Etc, until I tiptoed around what he was doing.

Not sure if I'd be the best spy in the world, or the worst. With such a dramatic swing in possible outcomes, its probably glad that I'm not one.

Well, except for GM. Its still number two in the world according to that article. At times its traded the Number one position with Toyota.

There are existing car share services which work fairly well in metro areas. I'm in more of a suburban area. Where they aren't as common, nor is public transportation readily available. Of course, if the car comes to you, that's even better and might make it viable.

Four hours out of one's day might be enough of an inconvenience to inspire someone to buy an additional car. Depending on their income and their responsibilities. My parents did that for quite some time. I think the third child made them decide that they needed to do get a second cheaper car. Getting all of us kids in the car so my dad could get to work on time was a chore. He also worked odd hours, so she would occasionally wake us up at 1:00 am to pick him up.

Who were the big five?

Big three: Ford, GM, Chrystler right?
Big five: Big Three + AMC + ??

Hmm... From reading the summary, I don't think this will necessarily mean less miles traveled by cars. Just less cars. If I'm going to work at 8:00 and leaving work only at 5:00 and my wife needs the car to run errands. All of that can be done with one car, but today uses two, because my wife might not want to drop me off and pick me up from work ( at an hour's commute each way durring traffic, that kind makes sense) . So now if the car can just return home after dropping me off, it doesn't suck an additional four hours from her day where she could be doing other things. The down side is that instead of just operating for two hours a day taking me to and from work, it now operates four hours a day.

But obviously not spending the resources and energy to create a second car saves the enviornment a bit.

Hmm... It would be great if you had some kind of polarized display that showed you the contents only if you are wearing special glasses. Yet to everyone else, it looks like solitaire...

Something like this, but with solitaire for everyone else not wearing glasses:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Privacy-monitor-made-from-an-old-LCD-Monitor/

I think if you sat with glasses on staring at a white screen, that might also rasie suspisions too much.

I don't know. If its a retail unit, its both awesome, hilarious, and perfectly within Microsoft's reach to do that. They broke a Microsoft rule, well, then Microsoft revoked their access to their software. Go ahead and sue. You're both at fault. Microsoft might wave the cost of purchasing a xbox one, but hold you accountable for their professional attourney infated losses.

Yeah, I doubt its that easy. RF is fun and easy to manipulate like this. Its pringle cans all over again.

I actually discussed this last January with a dealer. He thought I was nuts. I insisted on a real key. No auto unlock by proximity feature.

Where does your home directory live?

The variety you hear on FM radio in the US depends on where you live. In rural areas, you pretty much just have country music, conservative or religious talk radio, and maybe a top 40 station if you aren't that rural. But in large cities you get a nice mix. I have several jazz radio stations to choose from, a few folk, a couple classical music, several rock variations, several top 40, several urban/r&b channels. I really do cherish the folk, jazz and classical stations. Some really obscure americana/ upcomming artists that haven't been popular enough to make spotify/pandora/google play music.

I really should get into shortwave again. My grandfather used to spend hours trying to get different stations. I used to do the same when I had a shortwave radio, but I think it broke when I was a teenager and never had the money to get it replaced.

Digital radio in the US is primarily limited to large metro areas. I don;t know when if ever they will try to switch over completely to digital. We still have AM going strong. I absolutely love the sound of AM radio. It has a certain fuzz around it. You can still hear everything well, but its not crystal clear uncanny valley effect you get with high quality FM these days.

Wireless spectrum assignment can only be done by the government, for the betterment of the people in the country. The government should be well compensated for that limited resource and should apply those funds for the betterment of the people who own that spectrum and allow it to be put to private use. I don't know how insanely libertarian you have to be to think that there isn't a single governmental function that should exist and be funded with these fees. Defense? Border Security? Science Research Funding? Lowering price of admission for the Smithsonian? Library of Congress? Space Travel? Reduced Taxes on individuals? Surely, there must be something that you think the government should do, and maybe these fees can fund that?

We can disagree on how these fees should be spent, but surely they can be put to a good use for all of us.

It would be really fun to take do a weird mod with it, like gut out an old all in one pc, and replace the guts with the chromebit.

A good book? Learning a new programming language? Going for a walk in the park? Spending time with loved ones? Untangling fishing line? Doing volunteer work? Studying philosophy?

...says the worlds largest netflix adict. Trying to use this as motivation for myself. There are many wonderful things to explore that don't involve TV. I should do more of that.

The language was created before typewriters were popular, but still someone should create a modified version that is typeable on us standard keyboards. Its really the only thing holding the language back, that and translation of Jurassic Park.

Yeah, I was trying to put that in the right words for a while. Nicely put. It might take some extra effort that is in short supply.

Yes, of course. Termites are terrible. I dealt with just the normal kind and it took a lot of effort to keep them from destroying the few wooden window frames in a concrete house. And yes, I did try eating a few. Not the tastiest to my western palate. Maybe they need to be processed into a more conventional looking food product or maybe even just cooked and served with ketchup.

Alternatively, Termites are a great source of sustainable protein that was utilized by our ancestors for thousands of years. This fast growing breed might be perfect for domesticating.

Any chance Florida will be underwater before the termites make it off the peninsula? I don;t think underwater termites are an issue in most cases.

Oh, man, that would be great. A box of spinach in the freezer isle "Made from edible materials! Like Plants!". I'm really tempted to make those stickers and visit a couple grocery stores. Criminal mischief is still a misdemeanor right?