Case in point, from a customer last week. Legit local radio, click steaming button. Stream controls in pop up from 3rd party. Stream is broken, stars then stops. Ad in same window, from ad choices, plain white misleading ad, "you need to update your windows media player 11". What do people do? Oh I need to update. Boom adware or worse. There need to be laws and real penalties for this, it does real damag.

Okay. You have a full 2-liter soda bottle. You drop it from hip height to the floor. The shock releases dissolved gas, increasing the pressure in the bottle. Now pick it up and drop it again. And again.

At some point the bottle will fail and the soda will erupt.

Can you say on which drop? Can you say how it will fail (split seam, pinhole rupture that expands, cap failure?)

No? But you can say that it likely will if the behavior continues.

Lets take another example, say HDD failure. Any HDD will fail, at some point. Is it head failure? Bearing failure? Temperature damage to the media? You do not know, but you can say it WILL fail.

So, nice troll attempt, but it falls flat.

You took my crappy little joke and made it into a thing of glory. Bravo!

Lazy bum.

# wget popcorn-6.2.1.tgz
# tar xvf popcorn-6.2.1.tgz
# cd popcorn-6.2.1
# ./configure --libs="-lbutter -lsalt"
# make
# make -install

Please forgive errors, I don't eat popcorn anymore so my popping skills are rusty, but still better than that microwave apt-get popcorn.

The bottom line is that we know far more about Uranus than Pluto. Even given the wealth of knowledge and enjoyment Uranus has given generations of scientists and philosophers, the decision was made to explore strange (no not new worlds, just strange.) I think in part this is due to the fact that Uranus is massive and gassy, but what do I know?

You should always have a competent tech on hand for maintenance tasks. Period. If you do not, Murphy will bite you, and then, instead of having it back up by peak hours you are scrambling and looking dumb. In your current scenario, say the patch unexpectedly breaks another critical function of the server. It happens, if you have been in IT any time you have seen it happen. Bite the bullet and have a tech on hand to roll back the patch. Give them time off at another point, or pay them extra for night hours, but thems the breaks when dealing with critical services.

Not quite.. this is not everyone polluting. I think the meme you are looking for is "First world problems..."

That's because elec vehicles do not have to comply with the OBD spec that gas vehicles do. Same is true of the device at www.automatic.com

Do you want to become pregnant because someone hacked your hormone implant?

I do not see this ending well.

I don't know, but the cable lies underneath about 9.62*10^12 Olympic swimming pools worth of ocean.

In my opinion the problem is not reuse of existing tech. It allows reuse of manufacturing capability, it comes with well known maintenance and troubleshooting procedures, etc. The problem is handing the gov a huge bill for doing very little, and using existing tech to milk out a big payday, and not choosing the tech based on suitability, or using it to advance the science any. The latter is something Boeing has been very good at.

Of course, you may be right.

Or go to a site with a better community. IE pipedot or soylentnews

I was typing on my phone. Blame android keyboard and my fat fingers, not MSO.

I taught inmates with no past computer experience both versions of Office, 03 and 07. I hated 07, and the ribbons at first. It made my day to day tasks take much longer. However, I had to learn quickly as I was teaching it.

I have to say that seeing people with no computer experience learn both. The ribbons are better. People grasped complex workflows easier, effecience was improved, and the learning curve was significantly reduced. Is this anecdotal? Yes. But I stand by it.