That my freshman reading list for high school included books such as:

Brave New World, Black Like Me, A Kiss Before Dying, 1984, Animal Farm, etc. Yes, a fairly subversive Catholic high school. Then of course during my years there we read the Greek Tragedies, one that stands out is Lysistrata, then of course The Hobbit, The Canterbury Tales, and Beowulf. Yes, read them.

About creating that guest account - I have NEVER let anyone 'borrow' my laptop. It is mine, passworded, encrypted and the whole nine yards.

Solves the problem. While the sun is shining just dump the excess current into a load resistor or even a storage array. Then tell said electric utility to go pound sand. Problem solved.

Why UPS nickname is Shit Wrapped in Chiffon. They're awful. I've ordered items outside holiday times to find that they'd say an item was delivered and it wasn't, etc.

If i must get a package or receive one I cannot stress this enough, the United Stats Postal Service does a far better job of it. You can print the postage at home, they GIVE you the Priority mail 3 day boxes and they'll even pickup your packages to go out.

All my amazon purchases went USPS - and all got there PRIOR to the 24th. In fact I had shipped a package from Providence, RI to northeast NC on the 19th of this month and it got there before the 24th! If you have to ship, USPS is the deal! I use the medium shipping box, it's $11.30 to ship. How much would UPS charge for a similar? $12.75 and they won't pick it up from a residence. Oh and USPS - for the $11.30 you get the full tracking.

Yeah I know. And Avaya - really? I thought they got snapped up by Alcatel!

Granted I've administered wired Avaya gear in the past, mostly G3iV3, G3iV6 and G3iV11 voice pbxs.

That killed a public WiFi MESH network where I live. These big companies need a big slap.

But this is good news. We can in fact teach the human immune cells to recognize the threats. In fact it already does, it's why a lot of cancers pop up later in life. But if we bolster the immune system we could see cancer eradicated.

What happened to auto making in Detroit was subject to much the same. It was the rise of the MBA and the Bean Counters that killed Detroit.

Time and again - the bean counters fuck everything up.

Agree completely. You must appear as though you are a local candidate. I did this a number of years ago when I was job hunting in the Atlanta area. Picked up a Google voice number in the 404 NPA.

Where all organizations are going to have to install charging stations. And the rate around here in 14 cents per kWh - so let's say you're in an office 8 hours a day, that would come out to $1.12 a day, or $5.60 a week, or a total of $291.20 per year to keep your car plugged in 8 hours a day for 5 days a week.

I say put them in supermarkets and charge a couple bucks to charge, put em' in places of business and charge what I showed above. Electric cars would be all over the place.

They're huge for one. They need to figure out how to scale them down a bit. Second, those flimsy cords are going to be an issue over time. With limited regular use I can see them breaking requiring a service interval.

Is that computer hardware has become much more reliable over time. In fact some business now waits 3 or so years before refreshing hardware. And personal is anywhere from that 3 to 5 years range.

But vendors want to keep pushing, pushing, pushing. It's to the point where you can't avoid Microsoft's little tablet experiment. But I already know what I'm moving to next. System76 here I come! No more Windows that's for sure.

Part of the problem is that Oracle is pretty prevalent in the commercial world - not so much in the State or Federal government spheres. And big business throws huge amounts of cash at projects like this so eventually they get a product.

Now having worked in one state office that DID use Oracle it was just a stand-alone database. That was it, nothing more extensive than that.

But in another state office there wasn't a shred of Oracle in it. All open source - standard LAMP suite. And it didn't break. Imagine that.

Actually it's not Russia per se. Think for a moment who builds/built all the gee whiz hardware that got us to the moon. They were private corporations. And they can pretty much sell to whoever they please and welcome all highest bidders. It's been going on since the beginning of the 20th century. Do I have to mention IBM who was one of the prime contractors in Apollo - they who history included selling tabulating machinery to the Nazi's in World War II while also playing the U.S. side selling early tube based computers to the U.S.

Plus the U.S. is heavily involved in the International Space Station and in another project which I find more interesting and while terrestrial it's basis is in the stars. It's the ITER project. The U.S. is one of the sponsors of that project too. Fusion my friend - or commercial fusion.