Gloriously offtopic, but spot on.

Good luck and congrats on your motivation.
Now, if you have spare time but no cash, get another job, evenings or weekends, and then buy yourself a decent dev box.
Or a tablet or laptop for the other people who share the machine.
If you're space and budget constrained, you can share the screen(s) with a switch box.

Terrorists are often expected to be self-financing, so training in fraud is included alongside bomb making.

Depends on both frequency and energy level.. Of the two, energy level is the one to watch for...very high energies can only be attenuated by significant amounts of solid matter...like a yard of lead or concrete or water (surprisingly, lead is only about 30% max better at shielding than concrete...and a damn sight more expensive and harder to work than concrete.
Water, of course, helps with neutron radiation too, but I digress...
But if you're close enough to that kind of energy source your smartphone is the last thing you'll be needing - a good pair of running shoes would be more useful.

Back on topic, there's plenty of "interesting" gamma sources that will happily go through a piece of tape, and I suppose the paranoid could you this to check on their does rates while getting an X-ray

Yup. Works for most companies, since legal people tend to take (well-written and informed) documents seriously.

Seems like both a smart and honourable move.
Pretty sure backstage the picture will be rather uglier, tho'. Rev up your resumes, Delta webserfs

Similar in France, UK...without the 10%, hence the brief popularity in some supermarkets for 'smart' price tags that presumably were updated at same time as episode till. Seem to gave disappered tho...maybe got stolen too much

Very true. The French constitutional court gutted most of the legislation regarding "illegal" downloading and streaming so they've basically given up.

Nope. I did a load of work with GE as a consultant and nothing in Six Sigma was related to firing bottom 10%. That was more in the earlier days when Jack W fired a bunch of people. Some parts of GE, like Capital, were like that, but the industrial and medical divisions were pretty OK on the people management.

Hey works for me

Well wrote.

But are you suggesting that such decisions are not necessary?

I think OP was referring to recent purchase by the Gmen of a robotics company that, among other things, also does stuff for the military. The two use cases are so similar that i guess it makes sense to do codevelopment

Urm, if, as it sounds, you use your computer a lot for work, then why not get another screen and put it vertically?
Or invest in a swivel arm. I have two big screens on such, hooked up to a docking station for my laptop.
It's an amazing boost in both comfort and productivity.

This shit gets modded up?

They're talking about stability control, not traction control.

I drive an old Mercedes, with mechanical fuel injection and well...mechanical everything.
The active safety is good, (I've upgraded the brakes and suspension) and Merc were among the first to design-in crumple zones, so passive not too bad.
OK, I've no airbags...

Not being a nutty survivalist, just like having a car where I can fix everything myself, and no fucker with an EMP device, or anything else for that matter, is going to stop me.

Cost over the years (including fuel?), less than replacing it regularly with something "better".