Public figure perfectly acceptable, they accepted this when they took a public job. Posting their home info etc would be improper.

XFS for starters it's the default nowadays on rhel/centos.

If your running a brand spanky new kernel, with data you do not care about why an old FS. Plenty of newer better FS's to choose from.

Not true. In automotive space (what we are talking about here), repair of a 20 year old vehicle is quite common. In x86 space, modern software releases commonly apply to a decade old platform.

I wasn't implying that Apple was any worse than Google. However I do think such a perspective is a valid one on the x86 desktop platform side, where every other player except for Apple does a better job of supporting platforms over a longer time.

At the whim of Apple dropping support from some component of that hardware. In the handset business, no provider has proven that it could be easy to support older platforms so there might legitimately be too much churn in the platforms for that to be reasonable, but in the desktop space, the causes for Apple dropping support seem to be things that don't phase the other OS providers on that platform.

OTP is 1 bit encryption just a very strong 1 bit.

*Being* the infotainment system is not that great a play. Those systems are increasingly tied to the platform of the vehicle so you can't easily upgrade it without buying a new vehicle. Apple nor Google are particularly well known for being fond of supporting tech that, on average, would not receive a hardware upgrade for 11 years for any user.

Improving infotainment systems interaction with the driver's handset so that a handset upgrade drives all the value add they would want, that works. Hence Google and Apple doing their respective platforms, and car vendors looking to support both from a neutral platform rather than locking a very expensive vehicle to one platform or the other.

Large providers with a clue already use anycast for DNS. So assuming your ISP does a decent job peering you should never see a google DNS request going from NYC to Chicago outside of a failure of the DNS servers in NYC.

They propose shifting more latency sensitive bits to microwave links. Specifically DNS and TCP Handshakes ya know those top 2 DDOS vectors. We already have protocols to tunnel through DNS. I'm sure that will go so well.

Because their solution was powershell with it's own nonstandard remote interface.

The problem is they get sold a bill of good they never use. We have smartboard in every classroom, the actual smart portion of them is nearly never used. A projector and a screen would have sufficed just fine as that is what the use. Now the smartboard can easily cost 10x what the projector and screen does.

It's pretty much the same with anything technical, school see huge markups often when the bidding is limited to approved vendors for this or that matching grant.

Get a cell phone plan that does not suck, my Son's costs me all of 72 a year + his use which is a rounding error. (ting BTW great company).

Cell phone give a level of communication and thus freedom. Preteen is an important age to start riding bikes to friends go with friends to the park etc. Basically lots of things where the parental involvement takes a step back.

Muni's should make a level playing field. We have the tech to do it, a single fiber per home/business (ok maybe more for business) can with cheap passive gear provide 8+ different connections (bidirectional CWDM). So the muni's role is the physical plant they provide a point for all comers to connect possibly a L2 network for others to build upon and to provide baseline services.

Part of all that is to stop thinking in IPv4, it's trivial for a town to get enough IPv6 IP's to hand out /64 or greater to everybody. That makes it trivial for a single firewall to connect up multiple networks and route correctly. So you might end you with a muni network the connects muni services, schools etc etc. Your ISP who may or may not bundle cable phone etc but you could get IP based phone/cable from others and still have 4 free CWDM bands for later expansion.

I used to have to fight to get a sleeper car on the overnight train from nyc/boston to chicago. Compared to a late booked redeye it was cheaper but took 10 hours longer. For me it get me to city center for 8:30 leaving at 7pm but I was well rested, had a good dinner/breakfast and I was showered and ready to go.

Clapam junction was a signaling failure, anytime that the trains breaking distance is further than it's sight line this is a possibility. I'll give you a hint rarely is a trains sight line further than it's stopping distance.

I don't see how driver-less cars will change (other than the big one of actually *having* self-driving options). If someone would choose a corolla versus a taurus versus whatever today, I don't see them as suddenly not caring about whatever differentiate those cars today. Basically to the extent your categories would apply in the future, they already apply.

I agree that the concept that the infotainment solution would not really change the fundamentals of the workings of the market, but neither does driver-less (unless some companies neglect that concept, or a disruptive player gets something available to mass market early).