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As we leave 2017

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Capitalism/Technology

Apple’s battery woes

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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

Net neutrality

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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

Dress codes = censorship?

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Mining

Ethereum mining rig

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 ...

10Gb network upgrade

Revisiting the Quanta LB6M

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Solicitations

When a solicitation has NOTHING to do with the article

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Crime/Second Amendment

Demographics of gun violence

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Amazon.com/Life

Buying used

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Dress codes

Yet another “there’s nothing wrong with this” dress code violation

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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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