If you are in North Carolina you can call or email your Senators and encourage them to vote against the bill.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?...

I think that he means that he is putting everything on the private IP range: 192.168.* .* .

Which means you'll have to use NAT to control your teapot from the office.

Are you brave enough to put your tea-making facilities in the DMZ? That's laying it on the line, man. Personally I think I would reverse proxy my teapot through nginx, I don't trust a TCP/IP stack embedded in a kitchen appliance.

I would like to take this opportunity to direct your attention towards the venerable http://nicecupofteaandasitdown.com which is both splendid and written by a hacker. I think you can tell when you get to the page with the venn diagram of biscuits.

The TCP/IP stack in that NetBSD toaster is >= as secure as your laptop/desktop.

The hypothetical Hot Beverages As A Service device that exists only in my head doesn't use NetBSD, it uses a custom standalone stack running on a PIC/AVR. So there.

This is sounding a lot like a profession making it illegal for others to do anything that could decrease their own income.

However dubious this instance of censuring someone's comments simply because they've bothered to do some research to support their case may be, I think it generally is in the public interest that people actually representing themselves as engineers have a sound understanding of what they're actually doing (e.g. designing bridges that don't fail and kill people). I doubt civil engineers in the US are disproportionately well paid.

I wholeheartedly disagree. While this instance is especially compelling, certainly, you're still attempting to argue that someone might invalidate their point by making 'too good' of an argument without the qualifications.

Someone presenting an argument to whomever (the public, the city, etc.) has every right to make their case to the full extent possible (implied: honestly, without representing themselves falsely). No one has represented themselves as an engineer falsely so... Uhh, this sounds like a big load of crap, both specifically and generally.

I'm not attempting to argue that someone might invalidate their point by making "too good" an argument, or that it wouldn't be an overreach for a board to censure someone not practising as or representing themselves as an engineer.

I'm arguing that the implicit argument that state engineering boards exist and act [primarily] to protect the jobs of engineers overlooks the benefits of ensuring that people actually representing themselves as engineers are suitably qualified and competent. I also seriously doubt it's in the financial interests of engineers to reduce the amount of paid work they need to do to to alleviate public concerns over their plans.

>I think it generally is in the public interest that people actually representing themselves as engineers have a sound understanding of what they're actually doing

It's not clear to me what calculus should be used to decide "the public interest" much less what calculus should be used to threaten otherwise peaceful adults on its behalf.

Further, while it is good for engineers to have a sound understanding of what they're doing, the issue at hand is whether or not one has the permission of some state bureaucracy. While the latter may intend to yield the former, one should take care not to unnecessarily conflate them.

What about the licensed to kill? Pirates and Emperors?

re. unions.

Sure, as long as you don't claim you have an M.D. and I don't care that you don't, then we're okay.

Good thing you don't. Stitch away.

Just stick to friends and/or people who won't sue you.

Or yourself. Stitches aren't that hard to do.

If you can get a hold of a medical stapler they're even easier.

It's more like if someone stitches me up, in an emergency, after warning me they aren't a doctor, they will be sued by the AMA for "doctor-level work".

No, not really. This is more like if you're dying and someone gives you CPR but didn't pay $20 to renew their CPR certification, the CPR certification board goes after them for "practicing lifesaving without a license".

In other words, utter fucking bullshit.

You're right, this is why we have "Good Samaritan" laws to protect people who are trying to help people in an emergency.

That said, it's definitely not a bad idea to keep your CPR training up to date. Mine was renewed last December.

You say "No, not really", but I think you are in full agreement with your parent, who also sketched an instance of something ridiculous.

From my understanding, one of the main reasons that internet is so slow in China is because everything has to pass through the Great Fire Wall.

I found it interesting that this biography is so different than the ones that have been written in Western news recently. Can anyone here speak to how accurate it might be?

Possibly. Or somebody could be using servers in China in a "man-in-the-middle" attack to get information while it is en-route.

What did you mean that Chinese to say? because it came out along the lines of "at China's stuff."

I inserted "Something in Chinese" into Google translate. It's just supposed to be jibberish because the hypothetical caller doesn't speak Chinese.

Ah. I was wondering why it read like, "Stuff that's in China"

I may be completely off-base, but after reading the article and poking around a bit I got the impression that most in the DP group are youngish (under 21) and just wanting to be part of a secret society that does something 'useful.'

Most of the conspiracy theory nuts I know (I know a couple) are just kids who something big to happen, and so they make up a conspiracy so that they can be part of it.

Or let me play Dwarf Fortress in the cloud so that I will actually be able to play the new version at a reasonable speed.

Haha. I love the inevitable mention of dwarf fortress in any gaming post. It's like Godwin's law for games:

"As an online discussion about gaming grows longer, the probability of mentioning Dwarf Fortress approaches 1"

And while you're at it, multiplayer Dwarf Fortress sounds like an opportunity if you don't mind staying in a niche. The author of DF says he has no interest himself in implementing multiplayer support.

I do not believe that the committee has proper authority to approve posting here, we should refer all comments to PG and let him decide whether or not to approve each post.