This. Over 99% of all fossils are piled in boxes in storage rooms at universities and museums. Be nice if there was a way for scientists and collectors to coexist peacefully. Hoarding a cool skeleton in a mansion somewhere is less valuable than a museum display, but hiding it in boxes in a warehouse only accessible to one or two departments isn't much better.

I suspect the real reason for its failure is more than just Disney not playing along, its more likely that most studios are now preparing their own walled gardens and are allowing any contracts that require them to play nice just expire. Studios want physical media to die so they can charge for their own streaming, and most consumers don't mind getting that 5 Mbps stream instead of 24 Mbps for Blue-ray or 25 instead of 128 Mbps for 4k UHD. Not to mention the data cap/NN elephant. As always, consumers lose, and arrgghh for the win!

Like most people I know who stopped shopping at Sears, it was because of quality. Craftsman was one of the actually premium quality brands they used to carry. But when they dumped their high quality supplier and started rebranding cheap import tools as "Craftsman", they were no longer significantly different from cheap imports sold anywhere else. The "lifetime" warranty would clearly die with the store, so that lost any value and the brand was burnt for a few quarters of boosted profits in true modern American MBA success story SNAFU. I've spent thousands on Craftsman tools in the past, and once upon a time that meant I spent tens of thousands at Sears on decent quality appliances, clothes, tires, etc. But with a collapse of quality, why bother going there? Most "premium" brands worldwide are now repeating this pattern to cash out their brand equity.

The main reason for me to prefer VirtualBox is that while my primary host is Linux, I also have a MacBook Pro and several Windows laptops I use as occasional hosts - VirtualBox gives me a consistent VM UX across all my host OS's with trivial migration of a machine on the rare occasion I need to.

Biodiversity at the peak of Mauna Kea? Have you been there? I have, its beautiful. Its far above the tree line, freezing cold, and nearly barren. Ahinahina grows there occasionally in the more sheltered spots, but it grows elsewhere and the cultivation / reintroduction is going well. Unless you kill all the wildlife that jumps the fences to eat the remaining naturally occurring species then this interesting adaptation of California Tarweed might be sort of lost. There isn't really anything else of interest up there except volcanic tundra, ancient quarry sites, and a few shrines. And people who claim you shouldn't do astronomy there out of respect for people to whom its sacred either have no idea who its sacred to, or want to forget their own history. If Kamehameha was alive he'd probably have loved TMT. (google Kaneakanoowaha)

He broke one of the cardinal rules about slide decks on controversial subjects - make sure no sentence may be pulled out of context and used against you. Some interesting analysis and infographics in the paper. His conclusions are probably what pissed the most people off - that people screaming about how unfair STEM fields are to females may play a significant role in discouraging females from the field, which in my small sample survey (of STEM females) was strongly agreed with. But that puts part of the blame back on SJWs who are more interested in virtue signaling than being constructive, so of course he must pay. SNAFU...

This is why you set a password/pin - you can be 'legally' compelled by law enforcement with nearly unlimited force to use biometric authentication, but they aren't yet allowed to force you to type in a password outside of some narrow circumstances (which are being rapidly expanded), at penalty of sitting in jail forever under contempt of court. TrueCrypt had nice partial solutions to this using hidden volumes.

This is so true. I've always prized myself as someone who could write elegant code. I write distributed microservices that scale well to millions of nodes, but I still remember writing optical mouse firmware using a 4-bit slice processor where we had to figure out how to decode quadrature inputs and emulate a UART in a few hundred bytes of assembly and only a few registers. Just last week I was asked to refactor a DevSecOps solution that I was quite happy with, since I was coordinating ephemeral Linux Docker containers to run security scans vs deployed products, all hosted on Azure, and were serving the intermediate Groovy, Powershell, and bash scripts from within a single tiny repo that contained a single JenkinsSharedLibrary that coordinated it all and pushed those files from internal resources to their endpoints so one pull collected everything needed. I was asked to break it up and use hardcoded repo paths after moving all the embedded files to their own repositories, because that was our process. I love it when process basically says "do it stupider because someone stupider wrote this process and defined how we do things." And nobody cares, and everything continues to get slower. Because thats no longer important.

I see where I can pay to wear their suits, I see data from tests of their suits, I see pictures of their suits, but I do NOT see data on how to build my own suit... Not that I need to, but I'd love to see the technical information behind all this. So again, how is this open source? Did I miss a link hiding somewhere?

This is why Cisco purchased (2003), absorbed, destroyed, and released (2013) Linksys - their higher end devices were able to replace a growing percentage of the switches and routers being marketed towards smaller businesses. M&A is a very successful way to kill a competitor in the US, GOV rarely cares and is for sale, and the investors rarely care after they cash out. But Cisco can't afford Amazon. High end switch market has been a mess, software configured networking is eating it alive, and its amazing what you can do with a simple Docker network. Be nice to see someone with a budget release some cheaper hardware where we still need actual hardware.

Windows 10 is a reasonably good desktop OS as long as you don't' mind the "telemetry", aka corporate spyware uploading metadata about whats on your drive and network and how you use all of the above. This has infected their cross platform apps too, I briefly used Visual Code on Linux and Mac, and both were trying to upload far more than I'm comfortable with.

NASA is probably trying to delay certification of any manned SpaceX flights until its corporate masters at ULA get their SLS/Orion certified. Be interesting to see how much longer NASA stretches this out. Makes me sad, NASA today is not the NASA I looked up to as a kid...

Exactly - "provide better consumer experiences" is the modern euphemism / weasel words for "monetize everything we can which since it pays our bills and stockholders which in part will be used to 'provide better consumer experiences'".

Just look (deep) at fusor.net to see what has happened to open science in America. Now if an amateur has a legitimate breakthrough, they can't talk about it openly without paying $30k and waiting 8 years for a patent grant. Otherwise its stolen by a commercial interest in the field. "First to File" is one of the worst things to happen in this country, and I'm saying that as someone with one issued patent and more in the pipeline. Its bad.

Enjoy having a doctor that tries to protect your privacy while you can.
from New Hampshire: A doctor who won't use a computer loses her license to practice medicine