Re: Temperature?
Nah, that was proven well before that...with truck stops. There's a long-standing nugget of wisdom that truckers make poor judges of coffee simply because they'll just take anything strong enough to get them through their day.
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But you MUST. Otherwise, you can't have safer systems, period, because the user is behind 9 out of 10 safety failures (and those include failsafe failures--think "click fatigue"). And like Douglas Adams once said, you can't make things foolproof; a better fool will always come along: often one over your head.
"I'm willing to not see any email with any spelling errors."
So you're not willing to accept any e-mail from an English speaker across the ocean because you use "ou" and they use "o" (or vice versa), which trips most spell checkers? Sounds like a business killer to me.
So call them by telephone and inform them the location in question has a fire hazard. If that doesn't get a prompt reply, go to the municipal council and complain of dereliction of duty. You'll either get a response or media attention as the news picks up on the story.
I'm talking about the baseline: the drivers to support the motherboard itself, which isn't guaranteed in the OS (I've had to dump laptops whose chipset support got dropped). Add-on hardware of course has to be done separately, and there's still the issue of new standards which BIOS can't support due to architectural limitations. EFI of some form is rapidly becoming a necessity to deal with new hardware.
Everyone's for a physical switch until they're the ones who have to go to the middle of nowhere to throw that same physical switch for the machine that's buried under all sorts of crap that can't run while you're in it. IOW, everything's all fine and dandy until real life intrudes.
You should read a little more. Architecture-independent drivers was a stated goal of EFI. Why would it be terrible to not be held hostage by the OS? Plus recall, without an advanced system like EFI, native support for large (>4TB) drives wouldn't be possible without bodges. Same for the M.2 spec being encouraged for SSD's.
I wonder if it's that or one of the grim realities of capitalism: that there's no business like repeat business, meaning if you "do the right thing," you shoot yourself in the foot physically because everyone just sticks to their one-and-dones and don't have to come back to you. At least Apple could still draw revenue from its online markets which have increasing subscription (read: repeat) elements.
"But the Courier Service is dependent upon the Internet at various levels in order to function, so, the system breaks at that level."
Oh? How did they operate BEFORE the Internet? And why can't they just go back to it?
"Also, portions of the phone system are VOIP so that section of the phone system disappears, which likely includes the link between the Congresscritters D.C. office and his home district office[s]."
Again, what's stopping taking a step BACK if necessary? It's like with cars. You have two legs. WALK.
Not to mention history can play a role in the source of jokes. For example, only someone familiar with the heyday of Caribbean piracy in the 17th century would get the sarcastic remark, "Good luck, Blackbeard!" And what about the history of the word "Spam"? Would it make sense outside Western culture and other places where the canned pork product is commonplace?
You mean SHOULD. Otherwise, you're discriminating against newcomers who nonetheless need to be able to Do Stuff.
Unless you're willing to just tell them, "This Is Not For You." AND tell them where to go (without shooting yourselves in the foot as they make a mess that affects YOU, too), it's your mess. CLEAN IT UP.
But the next question becomes, "What if the sacrifice of freedom is the ONLY way to attain ANY security?" Take Franklin's supposed quote into consideration, and you end up with NEITHER freedom NOR security actually being possible, especially over the long term, simply as part of the human condition.
Ever thought this is what it's all about: the search for that "killer feature" that makes more people start caring about fitness, creating that market that they can just snap up and corner? I admit, it sounds like a Hard Problem when even doctors can't seem to get people to care, but there's always that little nugget: if you want someone to care about something, make it fun.
Sometimes, working FOR organized crime involves working IN organized crime (meaning to work for them, you have to commit a crime). The lawn mower isn't committing a crime in and of itself, but then you have enforcers (assault & battery), hitmen (murder), and in this case a facilitator (aiding & abetting for starters).
Not necessarily. Cheating hearts and two-timers, anyone? The thing about personal relationships is that there can be more than one at a time, as happened here.
Plus, as noted, this doubling exploited an intractable weakness of security. Namely, doing it right is HARD, and you're caught in a bind, as you usually can't trust yourself, nor can you rely on anyone else.
"One of the easiest and cheapest ways to dramatically slow urban traffic is to remove the centreline and turn off traffic lights - but at the same time you'll find that the traffic moves more smoothly and is less likely to snarl up in peak periods."
Have they tested that in countries where the rules are rarely followed anyway, like southeast Asia?
"(*)Menthol is the odd holdout, on the basis that children dislike menthol."
No, I think it's because too many smokers (especially blacks, IIRC) prefer their cigs with menthol (Newport is the biggest-selling menthol cig in the US, followed by Marlboro Menthol). If they wanted to keep children away form menthol, they'd ban cough drops (menthol is an anesthetic and commonly found in cough drops--including those "natural" Ricola drops).