No, the devs are thieves. They've lied about what they're selling customers then trying to get out of the refunds by victim blaming. If you sell me a shoddy bill of goods, then you're a fraud no matter how hard I try to make your garbage work. And I deserve a refund after seeing that I was lied to.

The blub says it "Uses atmospheric oxygen for fuel." Which is exactly wrong. It uses atmospheric oxygen AS AN OXIDIZER. Not as a fuel. The fuel is what the oxygen burns. And it still carries fuel onboard. FFS.

Butt... What if the simulated universe was huffman coded (or compressed in some other way)? Would it stand to reason that "information storage" in a "natural universe" isn't done at the mathematically optimum level, and therefore compressible? And if we can make the universe use less space, ie resources ie matter (and mass) then can't a simulated universe, in theory, use less energy than a "natural universe"? I know it's almost certainly not that simple, but I'd like to know why I'm wrong.

ITT was probably not worth it for me, but I must say, when I was going to ITT my Linux teacher was very good at what he did and taught me a lot. He was also one of the math teachers, and really let me stretch out and explore (I was lapping my classmates by lightyears in math, and the teacher is a published mathematician.)

I fucking hate everything about the economics class though. That teacher had an obvious agenda he flogged constantly, and wouldn't stop talking about his pet theories about deficit spending. It was a micro-econ class and he just wouldn't shut up about public choice theory either.

It was very expensive, compared with Community College, and I of course don't have an accredited degree, so it's worthless if I want to go back to real college.

It was all during a terribad time in my life. Why do we force teenageers to go to college where they usually can't do anything but fuck up? You look at the rates of graduation for older students compared with the people who go straight from high school to college, and you can see that what would be best is to give kids out of high school a chance to live in the real world for a while, then decide whether they want to go to college at all.

The only motivating factor for me was that without some kind, any kind, of degree, I'm basically unemployable.

Fuck that noise.

Most of my downloads only offer one type of checksum.

I would prefer PGP or SHA512/256. But most of the time the only posted hash is MD5, and even that's somewhat rare. Typically I just have to trust that the listed filesize on the site is correct, and see if that matches.

I must be getting my big files from the wrong places, since people here seem to be under the impression that hashes and checksums are regularly provided, but I rarely see that

It wears off quickly and is opaque. Also rather expensive. The spray on stuff is also pretty sensitive to temperature and pH. It dissolves in bases. I learned that trying to treat my shower so it'd stay clean. Turns out the coating dissolves in soap and shampoo.

I'd rather just not deal with getting malware in the first place. As long as adnetworks are serving out malware, then NoScript and uBlock it is.

Is free content worth the near certainty of getting your machine infected with malware? Malware that can cryptolock your hard drive, or log your passwords for your bank accounts? No? Then shut the fuck up. The advertizers are asking us to dig into a bin full of used needles in exchange for a tasty cookie. If I can get that cookie by wearing lead-lined gloves to dig in the bin, then I will. Because I'm not stupid.

If the city is in the business of biting the bullet, they could spring for a sidewalk on the near-side of the street (relative to the speedcam footage), and/or widen the street further so there's a better buffer zone between the street and people's lawns where children play. Not disagreeing with speedbumps.

Eh. I was hoping to argue with a smart person. I guess I'll have to swallow my disappointment.

Could you try that again, in English?

Lol, someone claiming a reductio ad absurdum, then offers up a slippery slope as what we should really be afraid of.

Link to original article is in the header.

Mod this commenter up!

It's all about differential pricing. But the fact is, the distributors can never hide the fact that they're profiting off of people paying half as much as you are. And the only things enforcing this segregation are stupid laws written by the distributors themselves, who then paid lawmakers to pass them.

They're trying to enforce an 18th century business model of sailing ships and ox-wagons on the internet. They must be stopped, because they're a fucking burden on the modern economy.

Whatever. The important point is that they charge less elsewhere while still making a profit, and the internet renders such practices transparently bullshit. The companies need to compete globally or fucking get out of the game.