Agreed, most of home security is to try and make your neighbours a more tempting target than you. The ethical choice is to do it by making your home a bit more difficult to break into though I guess you could “debuff” the neighbours as well 😉

Or if you have kids they can’t lose their keys if they just have a pin. And that pin can be changed if they tell it to someone.

I wish that he would try his hand on a lock from Yale. Considering that they are part of Assa Abloy who are very well respected in the lock business. My suspicion is that a company who are mainly makers of mechanical locks at least won’t fall prey for the many of the beginners mistakes lockpicking lawyer points out.

I’m guessing that we are around 1% of the general population 😉

Not enough for a big company to build a community on though. Of course, it would have helped if Google hadn’t restricted sign-up. Just because it worked for Gmail, but a social network is a different beast than email, that already had a critical mass of users.

Freespace 2 with a force feedback joystick. When you got a bit too close to a capital ship’s beam weapon and the whole joystick started to shake. One of my most immersive experiences in a game.

Agreed. It’s actually a simple choice for them. Either explain every single item on the list, or advertise the real price of their service in all commercials and so on.

I’m guessing that they want to eat their cake and save it. Or maybe more accurately: keep their cake and eat yours…

If most drivers are rolling through stop signs and you’re the only one stopping completely, while you might technically be in the right, your behaviour could lead to accidents due to the unpredictability.

Simply no. If you as a driver aren’t prepared that the car in front of you might actually stop when there’s a sign that says stop, and if you aren’t keeping enough of a distance to be able to break, then it isn’t the car in front that is the problem, or who is the one causing the accident, it’s you and only you.

The same applies to speeding. Driving significantly slower than the flow of traffic might slow down the traffic flow, leading to unsafe overtakings and such.

Again no. If they are driving at the speed of the signage, keeping the speed and driving predictable, then the ones driving “significantly” faster are the ones decreasing road safety. No-one is forcing them to perform “unsafe overtakings and such”. Also, just because you, from your vantage point, can’t see a reason for the car in front of you driving slowly doesn’t mean that there isn’t one.

While a dose of humility is good, a dose of personal responsibility is also great

I still miss Google+, my friends and my sharing is based on the subject not my relation to my friends.

To “hack it” also means to be able to handle something. That there were multiple meanings for the word was never in question and I really do agree with you that language evolve over time and you simply need to learn to live with that.

But also, if you go back and look at my response to op I also wrote that I found it unsuitable to use it in this case exactly due to the risk of being misunderstood.

Earliest I’ve heard was from MIT and the pranks they do. I think that was from the fifties.

Yes, Ikea hacks are much later. Me and my wife were doing it/calling it that around 2005 when we modded a desk. It was intended to be an example of the dual usage of the word hack.

You probably already know but hacking originally meant to modify a machine for instance (or furniture as in ikea hacks) but it really is a word one should avoid when speaking with people who aren’t part of the communities that use it in its original meaning.

…with a max load of 40 kg including the driver.

Good human

Never ask questions you don’t want an honest answer to.

I find it interesting that in Swedish the opposite of sunwise is “motsols”, i.e. counter sunwise or literally “against the sun”. Sunwise is called “medsols”, lit. “with the sun”.

Or when workers aren’t guaranteed vacations. Or when vacation days are mixed up with you sick days.

A sick employee who can afford to stay home won’t cost the extra due to other employees getting sick.

Exactly this.

It’s an adjustment of power and privilege, we protect the ones with less power from the ones with the money. And since it goes both ways, in Sweden you usually have at least 3 months termination period. This allows the companies to find a replacement and not being left stranded when an important employee leaves.

The US, for a country being proud of not having any kings they are sure hell bent on creating new ones in every company.

The first is a problem for the worker, the second is mainly a problem for the employer.

While I bet that the employers claim that it’s impossible to do and will lead to the downfall of the economy it has worked just fine in Europe.

I can partly agree with that, a normal user should never be forced to edit things regedit or device manager for instance.

What I was talking about though was that many kids don’t seem to know the functions of the programs they actually use daily. It’s not just that they don’t know of default keyboard commands that have been used for decades, it’s that they, in my wife’s case, didn’t even know that there was a function built into the program to do a search on page.

My wife is a teacher and often amazes her kids (age 15-18) by doing “ctrl+f”. So jepp, they have only surface level knowledge of the tools they are using.