Dammit, man. I was eating lunch.

[puts away carnitas and rice bowl]

Try taking that with you to the bank when you try applying for a loan after your credit has been trashed by an identity thief. See how far along the loan approval process that letter gets you.

WTF are you supposed to do with a damned letter? Feel all warm and fuzzy that they care?

``...they might wonder if the sheet is upright or upside down.''

Um... surely you're thinking of APL.

Yeah... Let's make "security through obscurity" the law of the land.

That'll help so much.

Effin' idiots.

When's the last time it was every six months?

Hint: It was probably sometime back when the release was two CDs, and not 6 CDs and 2 double-sided DVDs.

...I have a key to an old Sun 6-drive desktop disk enclosure on my keychain though I'm not sure why. (I do still use two of those boxes but I haven't needed to get inside them for a few years.) It just seems like I won't lose it if I keep it with the rest of my keys.

I still use a "solar" powered calculator, although most of the time the light comes from an electric lamp.

Yes, I have several smartphone calculator apps. But only physical keys are suitable for fast, repeated, accurate calculations.

The SEC is going after them for things they did to the investment market.

Exactly. The SEC couldn't care less about the students. But if enough investors make sufficient noise, they act. Next we'll hear how ITT was an isolated example.

There's plenty more scam schools where ITT came from.

Technically speaking, the tremendous number of earthquakes in Oklahoma aren't the immediate result of fracking; they are the result of wastewater injection. Now, the wastewater does come from fracking...so...there you go.

This was seen back in the 60's in the Coalinga area of California.

DreadPirate, you are really not calculating correctly. I know it sounds cheap, but it isn't. If you can get there for $30 in gas, that's 40 miles per gallon -- not bad. Still, that's 7.5 cents/mile.

Say you bought a used car for $10,000, and can drive it for 100,000 miles. That's 10 cents a mile. More than gas.

Oil changes every 5,000 miles at $40? That's another penny a mile.

Tires at $300 every 30,000 miles? Another penny a mile.

Let's not talk about what your time is worth (you might really enjoy the drive), or insurance (not too dependent on miles driven) -- but still, that's about 20 cents a mile, or $80.

Most people don't really like to think how expensive driving is, but it isn't cheap. We have been taught that it's all about the gas, but it just isn't.

A bunch of CEOs and their deep-pocketed investors want to increase their profits by driving down the cost of labor and want to do that by bringing in (basically) lower-wage indentured servants.

Call me when there's some real news on this front.

If their plan is to get more third parties to go along with their DRM, then they haven't really learned a thing yet.

> They were also able to precisely track a virtual reality headset with the same precision.

One does not "precisely track" a VR headset with two centimeter resolution. I'll guess that they continued to use the IMU tracking that is built into the Samsung Gear VR, and they used it to display the tracking of external objects that were measured with two centimeter resolution.