Well - if you start to push dress code at a work place it's a sure sign of that work place going down. There are more important issues to take care of for HP. And IBM also have serious problems.

At least as long as you dress reasonably well I don't see a problem.

PC always had a "you're screwed if you don't toe the line" attitude. It was never fine and cute. It has always been about social control.

"Because infotainment systems processed DAB data to display text and pictures on car dashboard screens, he said, an attacker could send code that would let them take over the system.

Once an infotainment system had been compromised, he said, an attacker could potentially use it as a way to control more critical systems, including steering and braking."

Well, yeah.

Normally it's not that easy. Sure, the car stereo sits on a can bus with nice information (ACC, backing signals to turn on the back camera, speed information so the volume can be automatically adjusted, etc). But it's not on the vital CAN bus (at least not on most cars).

But yes, it's an entrance point. So is the 3g/wifi receiver in the stereo, or the bluetooth connection to the handsfree that it can do.

But you would have to:

1. crack an entrance point to the stereo (any of the above) 2. control the stereo CAN transmitter (if it has one) 3. using that CAN to crack an entrance point to another system that talks to a vital CAN bus 4. control that system enough to transmit CAN on the vital bus 5. and then use this system to send bad messages to brakes or steering

and all cars use different firmware with different security holes and different CPUs. But with enough research you could probably crack a specific vulnerable car model.

Cracking modern airplanes seems easier, actually.

The New York Times told me that a A Sharp Spike in Honeybee Deaths Deepens a Worrisome Trend only two months ago.

So we have the Globe and Mail along with the UN and Stats Canada up against the NYT and the "Bee Informed Partnership". Meaning the old "consider the source" adage isn't really up to the challenge....

I keep trying to forget this whole midichlorian thing, so I can go back to enjoying Star Wars, but people keep reminding me.

Prophets use the same technique. Say something sufficiently vague, find a sufficiently credible audience, and all of a sudden you can't help but be right.

The Chinese concept of chi doesn't really match mitochondria very well. Except in very specific cases, mitochondria don't flow anywhere, and they aren't energy. The energy that does flow is in the form of glucose in the blood, and you can't change it much, nor the functioning of the mitochondria, by traditional methods of affecting chi.

Sure you can do such a study. You have a bunch of people using chemo, and you select half randomly to be prayed for. It's been done, and the results seem to be that prayer doesn't help (however, telling a patient people are praying for him or her can have an adverse result). If the prayed-for people did significantly better on their chemo, it would be evidence that praying for someone helps them get better.

FWIW, I don't regard this as evidence against any helpful effects of prayer, since the protocols that I glanced at seemed to be pretty cold-hearted in effect. I don't think the experiments should affect one's estimation of whether prayer works in any way.

Lighting some dried up weed on fire doesn't make electricity. Perhaps you should be a little more cautious with your last sentence?

nerve connections use electricity. Acupuncture is the application of a needle into the nerve/bundle to interrupt or divert that impulse.

The research showed that applying electroacupuncture The Chinese did not have electricity nor does anyone claiming to be an acupuncturist use electricity. Back then they had to use Steamacupuncture. Try again.

What is it with the idiots who say "SJW" like it's some massive conspiracy or even an insult. Social justice is a good thing, anyone who disagrees has some seriously messed up world views; so fighting for social justice should also be good. The fight over SJW is like that with Gamergate, part of a confusing set of code words that makes sure the outside world will have no idea what the hell they're talking about.

I think the article stands on its own as an attempt to show how (insert favorite "oppressed" group) was relevant in major events in history. You can hardly sit through a history course anymore without a somewhat distracting aside explaining that soandso was gay, and/or possibly a woman, or had some mixed heritage etc. While simultaneously trying to explain that history is about critical thinking, and distracting that critical thinking with irrelevant asides, a mixed message is sent.

There's no reason a woman could not have been a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but as it happens, a woman wasn't. Irrelevant housewives in a failed company don't really figure in. The article even points out that there were quite a few attempts at a PC back then, most of which failed when the IBM PC manifested. Even Apple almost did not survive it. I would argue, additionally, that even Apple had next to 0 influence on the PC market, except perhaps in encouraging Windows to exist before it was ready (but ultimately sealing Apple's fate as an also-ran in the PC market). Even very significant companies were destroyed that really did define direction at the time: Sun? SGI? Ironically even IBM is not in the business anymore, and it's big iron division is facing a lot of challenges from what IBM itself created. These were all the significant bits of computer history.

Talking about two housewives in a company that failed before it started is a feel-good story at best, a lame attempt at social justice at worst.

Now I understand why most Americans can't come to grips with their slavery heritage. All they know is what they read on the internet.

Ouch.

"Bob Harp's memory board worked well, and he recognized that it could serve as a lucrative commercial product. Lacking the time and resources to commercialize it, he put it on the back burner for almost a year. But in 1976, when his wife and Ely were trying to hatch a business, he offered his Altair memory board as a potential product.

As exciting as the opportunity sounded to Lore, computers represented completely foreign territory for both her and Ely (and, for that matter, nearly everyone else on the planet in 1976). Lore recalls: "I called my friend and I said, 'Carole, what do you think about starting a computer company? I have this little 8K RAM board.' She said, 'What’s a RAM board?'""

It get's much, much worse:

"With a good technical underpinning and a focus on style and aesthetics, they knew their boards could stand ahead of the pack. The pair even went so far as to seek out specifically-hued capacitors that would not clash with the other components on their circuit boards. "I don’t know what people thought of us: two females looking for colored capacitors," Ely told InfoWorld in 1982. "But we were interested in what colors went into our boards." "

All in all, it's more of a confirmation of traditional gender roles than it is of breaking through them. Bonus classic permeating theme: gloryless underappreciated innovative techies versus fairly run-of-the-mill wildly successful sales people (yes, I'm biased).