I don't think you should take anything you read on /g/ seriously, much less anything about shills. That board (like most on 4chan) is really needlessly toxic, and prolonged exposure can lead you to believe that everyone's a shill.
Not entirely on topic, but Marriott seems to be dealing with some internal phone abuse issues as well - calls going directly to hotel rooms (bypassing the front desk) and asking for card details to fix broken incidentals records. I got a call like this yesterday and found out that it's enough of an issue that they've printed out signs in the lobby warning guests to not hand out information.
That's interesting. I've had a couple of calls like this in the past and have always insisted on going to reception instead of giving details over the phone. Thankfully mine turned out to be genuine.
Kind of out there, but what prevents modification of the law from bad actors? Git history plays a part but is it possible for someone to edit a change and play all the subsequent changes on top of it, with the hope that nobody notices the sha change?
We have internal systems that allow us to audit/authenticate the repository. We will be deploying a cryptographic authentication framework based on TUF in Q1 2019 that will make it possible for _anybody_ to audit/authenticate the repository.
Yeah, I don't trust this article. The only point it makes that I can agree with is that the opioid crisis isn't resolved yet, which is a very easy conclusion to reach.
The addictive nature of the substance combined with the body's growing resistance to it leads to users of the substance to use larger doses to achieve the same high, in some cases not exercising any caution about dosage, leading to overdose.
This is a reason to continue to prescribe drugs through a licensed medical professional. Most long-term medications can't just be stopped without serious adverse effects.
By and large, drugs will be a large social problem until going to the doctor to get a monitored, controlled dose is the easiest way to get a fix. If we keep pharmacists and doctors in control, they can ween dependent users off in a controlled, gradual environment.
Prohibition keeps drug abuse firing on all cylinders until the addict slams into a brick wall (which, very often, is simply death), instead of giving them the equivalent of a "runaway truck" ramp that will allow them to gradually slow the pace and return to a normal existence.
wife is a social worker - she has told me that most common reason for overdoses is the first use after being sober for an extended period of time. Someone will get clean, abstain for weeks/months/years, have a personal tragedy, and (this is the important part) immediately use the same dose that they used before quitting. And it is way way too much.
I'm not spending $700 on a locked-down linux tablet with 4GB RAM. Unfortunately I don't think I will ever be at a point where a tablet is worth more to me than 440 double cheeseburgers.
A design patent and a utility patent are utterly different things; about the only thing they have in common is the trace of the Elizabethan term "Letters Patent".
Q'comm is asserting that Apple isn't paying for utility patents.
The default is there to allow users and OS maintainers to not worry about it. It still goes in your home directory, but at least it's organised.