Lockscreens in general only exist to satisfy PHBs and annoy the user. If you really cannot trust the physical security of your office environment for more than 10 minutes, you probably should not be trusting it for even 1 minute and be locking your system through other means.

Well, the problem can be solved by adjusting the "as long as you want it to" input into the equation.

Step back, take a look at the temporary naure of life, appreciate your own insignificance, and ask yourself, does it really matter if, when I'm 95 and cannot remember my own name, I still have photos of the cat I had in college.

It's called the Zen backup plan.

I'm sure some high frequency trader could figure out some sleazy way to make a buck off it, though.

Yep, smokes and trips to the soda machine for a diet cola keep my legs from getting cramped. Also sometimes keeps my coworkers from getting verbally raked and expells unwanted company from out of my office.

Though, it would be even nicer to get hazard pay for it.

Last time I looked at that feature it was a smattering of different BIOS implementations. Nothing standardized, and I'm not entirely sure M$ has kept their support for setting it from inside the OS intact. PITA.

Well, the lead plaintiff can be awarded a significant amount by the court for his/her troubles. It is pretty much entirely up to the court, however.

Yep. Wikipedia is successful because it takes input without an account, wich gets you hooked enough to actually create an account and also lets spam die a quicker death because even aloof bystanders can kill it. That and of course version control make reverts easier than spam. Like a few others that have burst on the scene with hopes of being "wikipedia for X", this site won't be very successful (unless its intended entirely as a credential collector.)

Same story here. It's one thing to retir support for older discrete cards out of the proprietary driver. Users of those cards tend to upgrade pretty frequently anyway. It's another thing entirely to retire support for embedded laptop chipsets, and while doing that, apparently not give the OpenSource maintainers good enough documentation on the power management/clocking in those chipsets to prevent overheats/instability.

I'm due for a new laptop here at work. My top requirement was "not AMD."

Just about anywhere where a discovery motion can compell you to spend your own staff's time and effort answering questions about whether or not you have data X and please give data X to the lawyers, you want a data retention policy so that when you get that letter, you can just say "it's our policy to delete stuff older than Y, so X is long gone." Otherwise your techs are fumbling around in desk drawers and tape archives for old backups so you can say "yep, we looked."

What gets me is this:

If you don't draw analogies (like anthropomorphism), or abstractions, how the hell do you choose your names in a way that lends itself to understandable code? The author should take his own argument one step further and realize that calling a string of bits a "student" is likewise anthropomorphising the data, and calling another memloc a "Classroom" is applying an anology to what is really going on. Then he could reduce is argument ad-absurdium to requiring that all identifiers be randomly chosenstring to avoid installing unintentional meaning into data structures and procedures/functions.

Also the future typical user will be using more speech recognition, computer vision, and "AI" experts, all of which scale with parallelism.

...and kills you rmemory/cache profile. FP is great for a subset of problems, but should not be held up on a pedestal, just appreciaed as one tool in the box.

Considering it makes many everyday things harder to express, the fact that FP lends itself to easy modeling is offloading the mental effort in the wrong place. You're buying academic ease of manipulation at te expense of increasing the drudgery of everyday tasks, which is why FP is favored for research but not generally accepted for application.

This thing would never go out. I mean, is there pretty much anywhere you can stand that doesn't have at least an HP printer ad-hoccing away?

Thank you. Very helpful of you.