Years ago AT&T had a similar widespread outage on their long distance network. It turned out they had dropped a new software load into their switches overnight that brought the whole thing down.

Hydrogen is an intermediate in the production of ammonia for fertilizer, so you are still burning food.

Sleazy phone spammers have been doing this for decades. Now any fraudster can make use of fake caller ID.

I meant to say DVDs. Thanks for the information om Blu-ray. I have not played with that on a PC.

I think VLC will play play any region. At least I had no trouble playing EU CDs on my US laptop with an optical drive. It even let me choose the language.

If they don't produce a top quality product out of the gate it could damage their core business. I am thinking about Samsung's shoddy appliances.

The first one that comes to mind is what happens in dense traffic? It would probably cause people to stop suddenly to avoid going onto a large bridge or into a tunnel. I can foresee massive pileups. If the quake isn't massively destructive there will be complaints. I hope this was taken into account.

Pilots are trained around the edges of the envelope, and in failure situations. Until the automation can do that as well as a person, it can only be an aid, like an ordinary autopilot.

Does this make Real ID a gaping security hole? It certainly sounds like it.

Why not just tax the receipt paper?

That new software needs to be audited, source code and all, by outside experts. The first thing that was drilled into me in basic instrument flight training was never to fixate on one gauge. Boeing seems to have committed a transport category aircraft to just that.

In the 1980s I worked for a company that ran its payroll through Wells Fargo almost entirely through direct deposit since we were a branch on the east coast. One time they botched the ACH transfers so that money showed up in employees' accounts as expected then disappeared, resulting in bounced checks and ATM withdrawals. Without notifying anyone they printed paper checks and sent them to the companies involved (supposedly all with paydays that day). This resulted in numerous employees being hit with overdraft and bounced check charges, which we covered, but it probably tarnished their credit scores. I don't know if Wells Fargo ever reimbursed us, but I know we fired them.

What is seldom mentioned is that the British sent the design for the Bombe to the US where hundreds were built and did the bulk of the decrypting work. This is nicely presented at the NSA museum at Ft. Meade, which also has several Enigma machines, including a pre-war commercial version, and a section of a Bombe on display.

You are referring to Arlington National Cemetery.