And the average consumer just looks at the smallest number and picks that one.

It's the gamer and power user market that cares, and they can research through Intel's ark.intel.com and compare on the sites that do that like cpu.userbenchmark.com or www.cpu-world.com, then do it all again for GPUs on gpu.userbenchmark.com or gpuboss.com. It's a 3 week process for me to pick out a system. I get tired of it, and stick with my Windows 7 system for years so I don't have to do the comparisons.

I am hoping they will eliminate the non-useful results as well.

You know the ones, where you search for a product and Target and Best Buy both have links with your product in the result, clicking the link shows that they don't have that product. This is highly annoying, and totally useless. Makes me ignore any site that appears in the list that I can remember has fake results.

I never click on ads, so it does not matter what they show, if I ever saw an ad.

Putting up a post for a new college graduate, or junior developer is considered to be an age discrimination issue. Most new graduates are under 25 years of age, so by asking for that level, you are apparently telling the old guys that you are not interested in them.

HR has advised that we just post the position, asking for 0-5 years experience (how is that different?) and don't increase the pay if an over qualified person applies.

This is based on some court ruling I hear.

There is too much "news" to pay attention to every detail, so people tend to focus on the news that might be of interest to them. So, a technical weakness that was exploited doesn't really make it into the financial news of people that own the stock. Or if it does, the information is so watered down that there is no sense of the impending impact of the breach.

Really, only those of us that pay attention to computer security news are the ones that know about the breaches and the severity of them. How many of us own enough stock that when we move it, the price gets affected? Probably none of us. Try a poll with your neighbors and non-work friends and ask if they have heard of the latest breach. My findings is none of them, not even non-security software engineers have heard of the problem.

If security was valued, which it is obviously is not, then breaches would have an impact on stock price.

I used to use smart playlists for my podcasts. Once the podcast app stopped supporting them a couple of years ago, I had to find an alternative. Overcast was it. No I can't use my playlists, but it at least works to get podcasts and play them in the order I want. No need for syncing, or iTunes or playlists. If you want playlists added back to the Podcasts app, then you'll need to log a bug at bugreport.apple.com I have seen several changes because of bugs logged. The star ratings are back because of a bug, as is playing old Protected AAC files over Home Sharing.

I have deleted all my podcast feeds from iTunes. I deleted the Apple Podcasts app from my phone, and with the iTunes 12.7 update where they removed the apps from downloading, I rarely open iTunes anymore. iTunes is just there for an occasional backup. The next step for Apple is to remove iTunes altogether and force us to backup to iCloud.

I had a similar image, only it was the car lurching forward a few feet each time the elderly got close...

Just add -stockphoto and the other sites that have watermarks to your search criteria to ignore them.

TRS-80 Model 3 with dual floppy drives, took 30-45 minutes to compile COBOL programs. So you had 1 maybe 2 shots to compile and run.

Interestingly enough, COBOL is not on my resume.

Though since the Timex Sinclar 2068 was borrowed and easily confused (try nesting 5 for loops) I am not sure it really counts as my first home computer, especially since it could not connect to anything other that the tape player and cartridges I had.

The first one I bought was a Tandy Computer 2, with a multi-pack interface, dot matrix printer and an external dual floppy, used of course. OS/9 was a pretty cool compared to DOS and Deskmate was a neat interface. I used this to program, connect to BBS systems (where I met many people) and university computers at 300 baud. I had a basic word processor on this for papers, and handed it down to my parents who wrote an unpublished book on it.

The next one was a Tandy 1000 TL, a 286SX (that's right half the bus) with a blazing 1200 baud modem, 3.5 inch floppy and a 40 MB hard drive, monitor and a Dot Matrix Printer for $3500 new. I expanded the RAM to 786K to give video more space, and bought my first online purchase for this the 80287 math co-processor. Found a guy online selling them, I mailed him a check, he mailed me the chip. Real trust there. I used the modem to transfer the book off of the COCO2 to this computer and imported it into Word Perfect. Connected to the university computers to do coding assignments and play games, downloaded stuff as well as uploaded my first shareware (now freeware) to reset the Tandy Graphics to normal mode. Most third party developers did not know the assembly required to get out of Tandy graphics properly, so I got the system manual with all the details and created a program you could run in a batch after you exit programs like Fractint to reset the graphics, if you didn't reset, they were all weird when you opened something like Word Perfect. I wrote my own password based access system on this, preventing my roommate from playing games on the PC while I was at work and insisting he gets time to use it for homework when I got home. I sold this whole system online to a collector. He ended up playing for 90% of the shipping, I lost 10% of the shipping in the deal. Used 3.5 inch floppy to transfer my parent's book to a Windows PC and convert to Word, it is still unpublished, not for the lack of trying.

Me too. There are Windows, IOS and Mac versions so I can use 1 passwordsafe database across all 6 devices that need it. I have my parents using it, as well as my in-laws.
Every site gets a random password that meets their criteria. Once you get used to not knowing your passwords, the stress goes away. Often used ones get memorized even if they are random.

If you leave browsers up all all the time, they have the same problem. Firefox and Chrome. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-580....

The flight attendants will have to start checking that you have a wire to your headphones more than they do now.
For those that buy the iPhone 7, you're out of luck for listening while flying, unless there is an adapter.

I was considering getting the last one with a headphone jack and trying to wait it out until the jack is returned.
Maybe I'll have to go Android to get the usage model I want. I fly weekly, and noise cancelling headphones are my standard attire, they require a jack.

I just use it as a single point of log in for games. So really doubt they know for sure.
Of course they could assume based on my location, but that's not a highly accurate assessment.

Maybe because I block the like buttons on all web sites they can't track me.

Or maybe because when I did see ads a few years ago, I reported them as offensive.

Let them try and get past my ad blockers. Yes that is plural on purpose.