I think it was rightfully cut because it has the exact same dialog as the Greedo scene, and doesn't add anything to the story.

The Greedo scene, OTOH, shows Han to be a "the only fair fight is one I win" kind of guy, which makes him coming to help Luke at the Death Star even more important to his character.

PLATO was many things, but not "niche".

I'm the same age as the SecEd, didn't go to "prestige" schools like he did, and still had access to systems running PLATO.

Try this Firefox addon.

I don't know if the price of a car is really a factor compared to previous years.

Today, about $14K will get you a new car that works fine for the daily commute. And, although you could have gotten a similar "entry-level" car in 2000 for the the same price adjusted for inflation (about $10K), that car would have a lot fewer standard features than today's cars. And, $10K in pay at the minimum wage rate in 2000 would be $14K today.

One change you can make is to configure the outbound NAT from your mail server to appear to come from a different one of your static public IP addresses. Change your DNS to match, and see if that helps at all.

If it doesn't, then perhaps as others have said, you are collateral damage from nearby IP addresses. Has your IP block been allocated to you? If so, you can usually use the WHOIS info to convince the other end that you aren't related to the collateral IP address.

Not that this will likely help you, but you're probably completely screwed, since Yahoo doesn't even care they are intentionally violating the RFC.

All 4xx response codes are for messages that can't be delivered right now, but some condition change will allow them to be delivered. The text of their message implies that the response code should have been a 5xx. This sort of behavior is usually done in response to spam (foolishly, since most spambots never retry) in an attempt to waste the resources of the sending server by causing it to retry.

The Microsoft response might be legitimate if their systems think that you are sending "too much" e-mail.

No, your local brick and mortar store is at a 15-30% disadvantage simply because they charge a lot more for most things.

I just bought a gaming headset at a local B&M because I wasn't sure if it would work for me (comfort, quality, etc.) and wanted an easy return if I had to. For that, I paid 44% more than if I had purchase the item from Amazon. This is not an unusual situation, at least as far as tech is concerned, with Amazon, NewEgg, SuperBiiz, etc., all fighting for my online purchases.

Also, Amazon charges tax in my state, so that part doesn't even enter into the decision to buy online.

Yes, laziness on the part of the programmers of the device.

The default password should allow you to access exactly one function on the device: the "pick a username and password for a new admin" feature. Once that finishes, either the default password is set to cat < /dev/urandom > password_storage_file or else the default user is removed. In case you forget the username and password you set, the device can be reset to factory defaults using some sort of physical "reset" button.

This is a good analogy, because it is impossible to tell if a door is unlocked (or if a camera has the default username/password) without trying to open the door.

So, what your advice boils down to is that you never can accurately inform someone their door (system) is unlocked..

Not for some jobs. In a lot of the tech world, the algorithm would be pretty much exactly as the GP listed, at least for talented people who are desired by employers.

And, what does the company do when "big data" says somebody is or isn't going to leave in the next year? If they use just that metric, the will find out that a lot of people who they thought weren't going to leave end up gone..."we don't need to give him that big of a raise...the computer says he won't leave anyway". Or, "hey, we better find a cheaper replacement for this guy, because he's leaving in the next year" will be a lot more likely than giving the guy what it takes to keep him.

Then, too, there's a lot of employees who won't ever leave their existing job because they can't do any better anywhere else. Sadly, many of those people are the ones that you might want to encourage to leave.

This is the first season that any electronic device could be used by coaches and players during an NFL game. They weren't using iPads before...they were using steno pads.

One thing that hurts where I work is that we generally have 40-hour weeks, with at most 4-5 hours per month extra for maintenance (depending on the month, your group, ongoing projects, etc.).

So, although we do pay "under market value", the hourly wage is actually higher than a 50-hours-per-week-required job. Add in the fact that the commute is much better than most people's in this region, and you end up spending about 47 hours per week on "work" (including commute), compared to the area average of nearly 60.

Until that one time the automated patching system causes the critical server to fail in some way that could have been easily cleared if a human was watching.

Seriously, we automate all the patching we can, but some of the bizarre software running on our VMs means they have to be rebooted manually so that if something screws up, it can be fixed fast. And, yes, I know that for any critical service, there should be some sort of clustering, but generally I'm taking about VMs that interact with specific scientific instruments, and the vendor doesn't support any kind of high-availability. We also can't afford to spend $5M on an extra piece of hardware so that we can have a dev environment to test patches before rolling out to production.

The real problem is that although the OS image is consistent, we have so many apps that are installed on just one VM, and that ends up making every VM unique.

Every GPS signal is the time...that's how it works.

The signal from different satellites (which includes the time, the satellite ID, and the satellite position) is enough by itself to give you everything you need, and by determining how long each signal took to reach the receiver, the position can be fixed.

You only need 3 satellites if your position is already generally known (i.e., what hemisphere), or if the receiver assumes you are reasonably close to sea level. With 4 satellites, you can get a fix with no previous knowledge of where you were. Four will also give you accurate altitude after a few iterations.

Google's PageRank already implements some version of this, at the request of the **AA.

Basically, when Google receives a DMCA takedown for a site in its index (which it honors, even though it doesn't have to because it isn't hosting the content), that site gets down-ranked for at least some searches.

So, Disney—a member of the MPAA—now has a patent that gives Google a reason to stop doing what the MPAA asked it to do.