Most of your complaints can be fixed with various tweaks listed in the manuals. For example, you don't have to listen to chimes because the key is in the switch. As for Sync, update the software (easy to do with a download to any USB stick) and you should be able to connect any Android at least for voice, but your phone has to support a later level of Bluetooth to support reading/sending texts using the car.

I can't help you on your satellite drop outs, as that's caused by brain-dead placement of the antenna by Ford. No, that thing sticking up at the back of your car is not the satellite antenna. The sat antenna is pretty much inside your glove compartment.

Competent CSS will result in the boxes being gone and the page re-flowing.

The Firefox add-on Stylish allows you to do this with any web site. I do it with Slashdot to make the comments fill my browser from left to right margin.

Read the rest of this comments and you'll find plenty of real bugs (su bugs when using systemd-logind, failure to mount degraded btrfs, etc.) that are treated by the systemd developers as "NOTABUG". Likewise, if the packagers can't get the configuration right, how do you expect end users to figure it out?

And, systemd is monolithic. Sure, it's a bunch of separate executables, but you need to run them all together or things break, which makes it all or nothing. And, yes, I keep hearing about "no, you can use any ntpd/logind/whateverd you want...you don't need to use the systemd version", but nobody has ever given an example of how to do this that doesn't involve keeping the systemd version at least installed on your system, and sometimes running beside your preferred version.

The PR for systemd far exceeds the utility you actually gain. For some very limited sets of configuration, systemd offers features that just can't be done otherwise (or easily). Most of those cases are so convoluted that nobody ever wanted to do them anyway.

The one good thing that systemd does offer (better job control) is far offset by the design that makes it painful to configure anything that isn't standard, and even more painful to debug when something goes wrong. Examples of "something going wrong" often seem to include failure to mount a filesystem. Leaving out network security settings, this was almost always fixed before by editing /etc/fstab, typing "mount /foo" and moving on. Today, "mount /foo" invokes some systemd component to parse your /etc/fstab and do what it thinks you want done. Since it is impossible for systemd to know every option to every filesystem (and how they interact), this almost always means that systemd doesn't do what you really want (and what /etc/fstab says should happen).

I've used systemd, and it's painful and ugly, mainly because the documentation is either bad or non-existent. I suspect that right about the that RedHat 6 support is ending, systemd will finally be ready for production use.

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.