Seems like a perfect example of natural selection. The birds that figure out NOT to eat plastic (or how to get their body to deal with plastic after it's consumed) will survive to breed, the others, well the rule of nature is: Adapt, Evolve or Die.

PT Barnum would be so proud. Would the AirBnB house owner care to show any type of business model where they earn their installation investment back. Seems like once again Musk has found away to spend OTHER PEOPLES MONEY.

Name one other occupation that arm's their "idiots" with weapons. Cops should be held to a much higher standard - at one time not all that long ago, they were, and they were respected and truested- now they've burnt thru all that respect and are feared and hated. The few good cops are vastly outnumbered by the assholes. I was raised to trust cops if I was in trouble - now I wouldn't call a cop if my life depended on it, since the cop could (would?) be just a dangerous. The system needs a complete overhaul with a independent oversight committee - it will never happen (or at least not until the back and forth killings escalate up a notch or three).

Does it make me an evil person hoping a very small and precisely targeted asteroid hits the convention center at that time?

I have Gig Fiber coming into my research lab with a /24 subnet of IPv4. We assigned about 100 IP's right off the bat (mostly tunnels to other labs and remote access for outside researchers), we added another 12 or so this last year for new people/projects. So with 140 (give or take) IPv4 IP's left, why would I bother changing to IPv6.

IPv6 adds NO additional useful features to our network, none. Yet would add some expense in switching over (our firewalls are PFSense, so they're ready for IPv6 if there's ever a need to switch over). We have about 90 workstations, 10 servers, and three 384 core clusters, all just chunking away on their 10.0.x.x networks.

It will be decades before IPv4 traffic can't communicate with IPv6 networks, and if you want to run your networks on IPv6 then it's up to you and your service provides to bridge to IPv4 if you want to communicate with my systems.

So, until there's a REAL reason (read, worth the expense and time and training) to change over, I don't see it happening. Worse case, if we get a client that's valuable enough and they're on IPv6 only, we'll setup a bridge ourselves just for that client (but it hasn't happened yet).

Glad to see that management has all the real problems solved so they can worry about nonsense crap like easter eggs.

Heroin overdose (like 700 mg). No shortage of that drug (just check your evidence locker), certainly not painful - you nod off and don't wake up, easy to administrate, only downside is it's not all that quick.

$40M divided amongst those four companies (Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google) is a drop in the bucket. If it's so important to them, let them pony up the money.

You mean all those industries that off-shored their IT and Security to the cheapest bidder can't secure their systems?

BIG FREAKING SURPRISE.

Yes - I've turned down two solid offers in 2014 (both with a minor 10%ish package increase but more interesting research, at least more interesting to me) because the position did NOT come with dedicated office space. I agreed to do a followup interview and stated in no uncertain terms the entire reason for me refusing the offer was the open layout of their lab. The 30-something HR person looked at me like I had just grown two heads. Depending on your career level and path, your mileage may vary.

Or you could just use one of the dozens of Apps for Android or Apple that shows that and much more info about the nearby hotspots.

Why do people re-invent the wheel - poorly?

Maybe you just need to get a grip.

It's not your toys, it's not your electronics, it's not your friends, it's not your classes, it's not the radio/mp3/tv around you, it's not the 21st century - IT'S YOU.

Learn self discipline and control what and when and how you do things.

It's not that hard - people have been doing it successfully for centuries, until the fad to blame everyone and everything else for your own shortcomings became the norm.

In the old days (i.e. pre-90's) your parents would have taught you this, unfortunately now days your parents consider you to be a precious snowflake and didn't teach you squat, so you're on your own.

So robots are the solution to not having a pair and being able to fire upon any intrusion on a soft perimeter?

Just like a embassy, let the world know that we consider a 50 meter perimeter around ANY US vessel to be American soil and will act as needed (including weapons fire) to protect that perimeter.

There - problem solved. If the Cole (and it's Pentagon masters) would have had a pair back in the day, that cluster f**k wouldn't have happened. But hey, soon as a few more billions are spent, we'll have a fleet of rubber robot boats to yell mean things at people trying to damage our fleets.

You should use them to host various flavours of your resume, because once everything is settled in to the cloud, your employment will be the next thing to expire.

6 million to a billionaire is like me losing a $50 Toy RC Helicopter. Only I don't whine about it as much, or milk it for all the PR I can get.