One of the reasons I live where I do is because I'm close to work, about 4 miles away. Lets me bike in. That way I don't have to deal with the expense and clusterfuck that is parking on a big campus. 4 miles is a very easy, short, ride so it is no problem. You don't need to change or anything, you don't work up a sweat.

Obviously you didn't read it either.

Jews have never fought wars to convert a populace. All the wars in Deuteronomy are over revenge or simply territory. Such was life in the ANE. The ancient Jews were nomads who wanted to settle. Whether an escape from Egypt ever happened or not is irrelevant.

Can we stick to "News for nerds", please?

You discover Apple software sucks way less on OS-X. The fanboys will tell you this is evidence of how much better OS-X is, of course, but the real reason is Apple doesn't do a good job on their ports. They really half-ass their Windows ports so they end up not being good software. It is possibly something to try and make OS-X look better but more likely simply laziness and a lack of good Windows developers.

There's a big difference between not going out of your way to support something and going out of your way to prevent it. Windows doesn't have a native POSIX interface (it used to have a basic one) but you can add one if you like. It can be done higher level via something like Cygwin, or it can be done directly in the executive just like the Win32/64 APIs. There is nothing stopping you from adding it, they don't care.

Same deal with DirectX and OpenGL. A Windows GPU driver has to provide DirectX support. It is just part of the WDDM driver. Windows provides no OpenGL acceleration, and no software emulation. However you can provide your own OpenGL driver if you wish, and Intel, nVidia, and AMD all elect to do so. Windows does nothing to stop this and they work great (if the company writes a good driver). Indeed you could develop your own graphic API and implement that, if you wished.

There's a big difference between saying "We aren't going to do any work to support your stuff," and saying "We are going to work to make sure your stuff can't be supported."

I don't want traction control to cut in a tenth of a second too late because the kernel was busy doing garbage collection, time synchronization, and handling an urgent warning that the oil temperature was too high.

I'll go one better, and not have my infotainment system hooked up to anything in the motortrain. That's just scary.

Ford has their own engine control computer, They're up to EEC-VII now, and they've ben running on PowerPC since the first 40x series came out in the mid 90's.

I have a non-logical like for Fords, even during the dark days, though the only Ford I had was an Escort EXP. GT40/GT350H halo effect maybe.

It always pained me for Ford to have such great quality numbers on build, maintenance, etc, then get pounded into sand by the fact that SYNC sucked donkey balls so hard. It seemed so tail-wag-the-dog. A $30000 car scuttled by lousy software. I'm so glad it's gone.

And WinCE6 + Flash? Really? Did they talk to any engineers at all about how that was going to crash and burn?

The irony with vaccination paranoia is that it's not the stereotypical rednecks that are objecting but the better-than-thou liberals that are pushing back. What part of Jenny McCarthy or Rob Schneider seems Mississippi redneck?

The court can't just jump up and say "We don't like that, it goes out." They have to follow procedure which means a challenge has to appear in front of them. That challenge can also only be brought by someone with standing, meaning that this law had a negative impact on you somehow.

That's one of the reasons the government loves the secret gathering so much, makes it harder for it to get challenged. If you can't show this harmed you, then you can't fight it in court.

So someone has to be impacted by this, challenge it, and it has to be appealed up to the SC. Then and only then do they rule on it.

AI may not kill us all in the Cyberdyne Model T100 fashion, but it may gut our economies.

Id love to see an analysis of what jobs are at risk in the next 10 years, 20 years, etc. Everybody says "well they'll find new jobs". Id really like to see where.

There's a glut of lawyers out there now, partly because of automation. Whatever you think about lawyers this is a knowledge job, one that takes a large amount of schooling and prep, protected somewhat by accreditation requirements. Lawyer jokes aside, this is a troubling change for employment.

We're not set up for a "all work is done by machines, nobody needs to work, everybody rejoice" future. Remember Romney and the 47%, or the Lucky Ducky talk. People are expected to work to gain food/clothing/shelter. If a huge amount of jobs are eliminated faster than humans can be trained to find new ones, or even the jobs that exist don't make sense (imagine a lawyer now, knowing they'll never make enough money to cover student loans) our Consumer Purchasing based economy will suffer.

Im a programmer, not a Luddite nor a Saboteur. I just wonder what the future brings for my kids. Remember that both the Luddites and les Sabot we're not protesting technology for technologies sake, they were protesting tech that eliminated jobs.

Shouldn't it be "makes it more secure and perhaps allows connectivity to Internet"

With all the holes we've seen in everything, security should be thought of the first minute, not even wait to the middle of first day of design. The only thing I saw in that landing page is "uses more encryption" which may improve information (read: privacy) leaks, but doesn't do much for security and being hacked into. This with the Sony hack still on the first page.

I vote for Eric Estrada to play Ken Kutaragi.

Dos Mujeres. Uno Carmageddon.

If you're not using their wireless, just put the router in a metal box.

Then Comcast will charge you a Faraday Cage container upgrade. They'll say you need to have a field assistant do the install, they'll come out sometime between 1 and 11. That being months, as in sometime between 1 for January, and 11 for November. Then a $9.99 rental fee per month. Then you get calls from their friendly techs to have you upgrade to Faraday Cage Turbo(TM) for $5 a month more, or Faraday Cage Blast (TM) for just $8 a month more!!

Jokes aside, it does suck that Comcast is forcing this on everybody. It's good to be the king, err, monopoly.

Im forced to use Comcast based on lack of options where I live. I connected my iPhone (iOS8) to xfinitywifi once to download a podcast.. Later I reset all network connection info on the phone which should have lost all authentication info. On my home net, i had to re-authenticate. But, for some reason, I haven't had to re-auth on xfinitywifi.

Do they do authentication based on some client info? MAC addr? Some Passpoint auth? Even if I just did password auth without remembering, I do know I haven't done any time recently, and I thought you had to re-authenticate daily, which I'm 100% sure I have not.

I don't have Business Class, but I do have my own modem and Wifi router. Router is free from TMobile (technically not mine but a loan for the life of my relationship with TMobile). I sprung for a modem with VOIP abilities but since dropped phone service, or my modem would have been even cheaper. Look for DOCSIS3 compatible, if you're stuck with Comcast as i am.

Many of the connections to terrorism were tenuous at best, That someone you pick up that is "tied to the terrorist" could be the Subway "sandwich artist" that sold them a Pastrami foot long in the morning. If you then hung said condiment artisan them from a chain and applied some voltage, they would not only admit to the terrorizing, but they'd also admit to 9/11, admit to assassinating Archduke Ferdinand, and admit to blowing up the Maine and starting the Spanish-American war. You're usually just adding more hay to the haystack, not finding any new needles.

One of the big takeaways from the torture report is not only is torture wrong, but it's useless. So you dirty yourself for not a lot of gain. The mechanics of torture work closer to terror than you'd like to think. It's effective at scaring a big subset of your chosen population and emboldening a small subset. If you're a despot and trying to control a population, you probably can handle the said "emboldened" subset. But we're not talking control here, we're talking about getting actionable intelligence in a very short period of time. I remember a story where a captive was tortured and gave up nothing - but when an interrogator gave him sugar free cookies (he was diabetic) the interrogator seemed more human and gained trust and intelligence.