Well, Harley found couldn't engineer an electric with oil leaks, so this one has to leak electricity.

Too funny., and I ride my Road King more than I drive my car.

"The real reason behind the shift to KFC had nothing to do with healthy food or finicky consumers: it was about money â" money that Kentucky Fried Chicken would have had to pay to continue using their original name. In 1990, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, mired in debt, took the unusual step of trademarking their name. Henceforth, anyone using the word âoeKentuckyâ for business reasons â" inside or outside of the state â" would have to obtain permission and pay licensing fees to the Commonwealth of Kentucky." (Quoting Snopes)

Sorry, not really buying this. The term "Kentucky Fried Chicken" is a registered trade mark as you can see here, and here, as shown at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Both of these marks were registered in the mid '60s. Both of these are marked by the USPTO as being "live" marks. There are related marks that are dead, but these appear to be the primary ones as regards their business, and they are current, protected marks.

Are you, (and by extension snopes), claiming that the State of Kentucky can somehow overrule a trademark granted by the USPTO?

Somehow, I doubt that any state would be allowed to just arbitrarily declare a trademark to be invalid. They might be able to do something within their own state, though they'd most likely be laughed out of court if they did.

Normally Snopes is OK to use for non-political stuff, but I suspect that in this case, he's been suckered.

The thing that I liked best about Linux Journal was that they would take the time to do longer, more in depth articles than you generally find on the web. I'll admit that of late, I haven't really been reading through every issue cover to cover like I used to just because I don't really have the time for it.

However, it was still worthwhile to me for those articles that I was interested in, because it wasn't clickbait crap ehere you had 3 paragraphs of text surrounded by ads, where you have to continually click for the next 2-3 paragraphs.

I've also learned some nifty things about shell scripting over the years.

I'm sad to see Linux Journal go away, but realize that publishing a magazine these days is pretty freaking difficult given the attention span of so many folks, myself occasionally included.

I still think SMIT for Linux would be a good thing

I think SMIT would be an excellent addition to Linux. The best thing about SMIT in my opinion, is the way that it is essentially self-documenting. At any time after you have it create a really nasty command line, you have the actual command that was executed right there in the log. I used it quite a bit many years ago when doing work with LVMs and similar things where you ended up with big hairy commands that would do exactly what you wanted.

Why can't colleges and universities be meritocracies?

Because it is all about feelings.

Reality has no place in an American university.

There is already a feature on many phones to wipe them if a certain number of attempts are made to unlock them with the wrong password.

Why not simply have another feature that wipes the phone immediately if someone enters a specific password?

This is a feature I'd be willing to upgrade for.

Yeah, that's just what we need./sarcasm

Same here. The first CD I bought was Dark Side of the Moon. I still have it and cdparanoia still thinks the disk is fine.

The downside of some of those old CDs is that the manufacturers didn't really know how to take advantage of the dynamic range of CDs. On a few of my older disks, I have had to rip them as WAVs, then bump up the volume a bit in Audacity before converting them to mp3.

That minor inconvenience aside, I much prefer having physical copies that I can re-rip if necessary (as I've done over the years to go from lower bitrates, to the much higher bitrates I use today. I'll admit to living in fear of a fire that would (among other things) destroy the physical collection. I'd still have my backups in that case, but at that point would have less flexibility.

For someone my age (old fogey) I'm buying CDs pretty consistently. My collection is about 80gb and still growing.

There's nothing I can do about juries. They seem inclined to just let the cops kill anybody they want to if they say they were scared.

The only thing you can do about juries is to serve on them. If called, do not attempt to get out of jury duty. Try to be presentable and get selected to serve. This is the only way you can be sure that your point of view will be represented on the jury.

I always seem to get struck during selection. However, if I were on a jury for any case, I'd give no more weight to police (or any other government representative) than I would for any other citizen. If it's the defendant's word against a cop's word, the cop loses due to the presumption of innocence as far as I'm concerned. As for cops involved in shootings, I would look at it exactly the same way I would for any ordinary citizen in the same situation. Actually, given the powers given to police, and the fact that they are allegedly trained for these situations, a cop would have a harder time than Joe Sixpack if I were judging the facts of the case.

Serving in a jury is one of the most important things you can do as a citizen. We should treat the opportunity to serve appropriately.

Bullshit. The standard library is sufficient for anything the machine can deliver in performance. If they claim need more, then they have some severe design defects in their system.

Indeed. Network latency is going to swamp any file access performance issues

I have one address that I have paid for, not too much a year, which forwards all the email to my ISP account. I can't change it easilly because it's been my address for 25 years.

Same here. I just checked, and it would appear I've had my Pobox for 22 years. Until I changed it to point to my personal domain email, I didn't even know what my "real" email address was most of the time. If I changed ISPs, I'd go to Pobox, change the forwarder, then change my email client, and I was good to go. For me, the best benefit of this service is that I never have to tell anyone if the underlying email address changes.

FWIW, I've been very happy with the stock filters that Pobox uses, and their service in general.

No thanks to any service that requires a special dedicated reader.

I support DRM-free publishers like baen that allow you to download your ebook in whatever format you want. Wish there were more of them.