As we leave 2017
One lesson all of us should learn ahead of this Christmas given everything that’s happened politically in 2017 and also 2016: RIGHTS limit how the governm...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Apple’s battery woes
Recently Apple confirmed that its iPhones slow down as the battery degrades. A lot of people have taken this to mean that Apple is trying to force people to upg...
Net neutrality
All the various discussions of incidents wherein ISPs have done “shady things” all ignore WHY they made those moves over the simple fact that it hap...
Dress codes = censorship?
It’s finally happened. I really wish I could say I’m surprised by this, but I would be lying. Dress code enforcement now means female fashion censor...
Ethereum mining rig
For about the last month, I’ve been Ethereum mining, putting a GTX 1060 (“Rack 2U GPU Compute Node“) and 1070 (“Mira“), and an R9 ...
Revisiting the Quanta LB6M
Back in January of this year, I acquired a Quanta LB6M to upgrade my home network to 10GbE, at least for the primary machines in the group. In recently also acq...
When a solicitation has NOTHING to do with the article
Over in the sidebar to the right, you’ll notice I have a statement saying that I reserve the right to publicly post any solicitations I receive. I’d...
Demographics of gun violence
These numbers come from the CDC WISQARS Fatal Injury Report and Nonfatal Injury Report, cross-referenced with the FBI Uniform Crime Report. All data is for cale...
Buying used
Recently I saw this on Cracked.com in a collection of “Ways You Can’t Stop Wasting Money, in Three Steps“: And it’s relatively easy to l...
Yet another “there’s nothing wrong with this” dress code violation
Take it way, Annie: I got dress coded for this outfit. Turpin high school. Twitter do your thing. pic.twitter.com/0Dmn8OOosn — annie (@ConcannonAnnie) Oct...
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