"internet is full of shitbags" isn't on topic. Corporations are full of amoral, cocaine soaked greedy, selfich bastards with absolutely no empathy is.

the corporations are full of shitbags, news at 11

FTFY. Oh, and an offtopic educational link for you grocers and foreigners and others who don't understand English:
https://www.angryflower.com/24...
I see enough of that shit on Farcebook. Note, I've been staying away from /. for the same reason, the normals have taken over the site.

That's why they changed it from "Unidentified Flying Object" to "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena". The one I saw a half century ago was certainly not a space ship, unless Douglas Adams was right about scale, because it was smaller than a basketball. It was bright and fuzzy, rode next to my car for a couple of miles until I crossed a stream, when it zigged at 45 MPH at a right angle and followed the stream.

I wondered what it was for years before I learned about ball lightning, which is what it had to have been. My guess is ball lightning is a lot more common up there where the fighter jets play.

There are several exams and it is a fairly rigorous process.

At the end of your specifically-accredited bachelors degree, you take a Fundamentals of Engineering exam to prove you paid attention. After that, you need several years of experience working under a professional engineer. You present your degree, FE results, experience and get licensed engineers to vouch for you. A licensing board evaluates your credentials and allows you to take the Principles and Practices of Engineering exam. You also have to promise not to practice outside of your area of expertise. Passing that exam gets you a license. In some places, especially those prone to seismic, you need a more detailed Structural Engineering exam to be able to design more than simple structures.

You don't need those exams to do work as an civil or structural (or other life-safety engineer). You can happily detail, calculate and manage projects, but somebody who did take those exams and is recognized by the state has to review your work and say it is good.

The process of getting a license ensures that when the general public hires a licensed engineer, you're getting some minimum standard of quality and responsibility. Even if it isn't design of fire suppression systems for a hospital, you still want to make sure the guy designing your packaging has spent some time on material science, mechanics of materials and economic analysis. A standard of professional certification is never a bad thing for the consumer, especially when it has been peer-reviewed.

There are 15 P&PE exams, each with several specialty areas. NCEES has a specific exam that he could take and prove he is willing to take on the responsibility for a design.

It is more than a slight exaggeration. To take the Fundamentals of Engineering or Principles and Practices of Engineering, you can't use a graphing calculator. You use a basic $15 scientific calculator like a Casio fx-115 to become a person in responsible charge of a real-world design. When we hire a new engineer, I give them a calculator from the NCEES approved calculator list and tell the to take their TI-eightyshit home. If that calculator is good enough for the exam to become a Structural Engineer, it is certainly good enough for high school and college math.

The early bird gets the worm; I do not care for foods that squirm. I'll rise at noon to make my rounds And scoop some coffee from the grounds. I think that was Ogden Nash, but maybe not.

I, too, love to chuckle about committing felonies (depending on the price of his amp) based on my complete misunderstanding of regulations and my rights and responsibilities under them. Hee hee, ho ho!

My company explicitly states that it's our job, as senior developers, to farm the crop of new junior developers. And FWIW, we've seen enormous success from hiring inexperienced (but talented and eager) new engineers and mentoring them in the ways of our world. The main difference between me and a new kid out of college is that I've made a lot more stupid mistakes than they've had time to. I share my experiences with them, and they share their excitement and willingness to try new things with us. If I can play a small part in helping them graduate to a senior role - either here or elsewhere - I'll consider it a personal accomplishment.

We did our time as juniors. Now it's our turn to help the next cohort learn the ropes.

Gotta agree. I was ready to be all offended by a super restrictive list, but there's nothing there that seems likely to every be accidentally crossed.

Probably OK:

• Sorry I didn't look at your patch earlier. Someone ran over my dog.
• Aww, hugs!

Probably not OK:

• What do I need to change about this PR to get it merged?
• Hugs
• Yeah, I'm still not interested. Please stop.
• Hugs
• Seriously, I'm getting pissed off.
• Aww, hugs!

I think all those rules are there so that if someone won't quit being an ass then they have an explicit rule they can point to. That seems reasonable.

The first problem is that there's provably no way to reconcile "only the One True Protector should have access to a backdoor" and "any backdoor can be, will be, and has been exploited by third parties". It's like hoping desperately to find some value of A such that "A & ~A == true". It won't (and can't) happen.

The second problem is that encryption only makes it more convenient for criminals to do the things they've always been doing anyway. If I wanted to communicate secretly with you, we used to meet in the woods and talk privately. If we didn't want to be seen going into the woods, we sent emissaries to chat over coffee in a busy restaurant. Criminals are using encryption today. They are also meeting in woods and restaurants and behind barns and in churches and above taverns and on boats. There is no question that intercepting their woods / restaurants / barns / churches / taverns / boats communications would play in huge part in stopping there schemes, maybe saving lives. That point is just not debatable.

But what is debatable is whether it's worth bothering to live in a society where you and I can't talk in private, or where I can't exchange pillow talk with my wife without someone listening. If it came to that, fuck it - the experiment's over. I'd rather burn it all to the ground and start over than live in a society where laws and technology mean it's impossible to communicate without eavesdropping.

When a would-be thief sees the giant flashing "Powered by Verizon" sign floating over my phone, they'll know not to steal from me and to look for a giant "Brought to you by AT&T" banner. Thieves put a lot of thought into deciding which phone to steal.

It's almost like people want to live here, even if they have to pay more for the privilege.

Neither one, no. The 2600 doesn't measure seconds but frames. Seconds aren't actually clock seconds but the number of rendered frames divided by a constant.

If the clock crystal ran faster (but not so much that it screwed up the TV sync), then the "time" score would speed up by the exact same proportion. The 2600 would still calculate the exact same amount of animated movement per frame because that's how it works. On a modern computer, something updates video RAM while another something reads from that same RAM and generates a video signal for the screen to display. On the 2600, the CPU fills in the current TV scanline as it's being displayed, with only a few ms between screen refreshes to do work like calculating scores, etc. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... if you want to be horrified at what our predecessors had to do to put a dot on the screen.

The 2600 doesn't get feedback from the TV display. It just blindly writes its signals to the wire and it's up to the TV to decode them properly. The TV doesn't send a clock signal to the 2600.

This is an excellent time to make an exception to that otherwise-sacred rule. The video was awesomely damning, entertaining, and infuriating. Other "accomplishments" it documents:

- Getting high scores of exactly 15,000,000 on two different games whose scores increment by 100 each time. Not 14,999,900 or 15,000,100, but exactly 15,000,000.

- Beating the second highest scores on those games by factors of like 30x. He got 15,000,000; #2 got 500,000.

- Beating the Barnstorming game by an unlikely margin. Summary: every time you move up or down in that game, you lose a bit of horizontal speed: the fewer movements you make, the better your time. Testers hacked up a copy of the ROM to remove all obstacles, then timed flying from one end of the course to the other in a perfectly flat line. Rogers beat that machine perfect time by over half a second.

- Scoring 1,698 in a game that increments by 5 points at a time and that caps at 1,300.

High Sierra runs fin on my 2011 MBP (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD). If it didn't, I'd upgrade this 6 year old boat anchor to get the newer OS, but it's had a pretty great run of it already.