To add, for those who haven't looked at a map, the Portland metropolitan area, which is where the bulk of population in Oregon lives, is right on the border with Washington state. A large number of people commute and and regularly travel between Oregon and Washington. Any state level taxing solution needs to account for this.

You win.

I note that the two proprietary systems were not impacted. Of course all software has bugs and vulnerabilities without regard to open source or proprietary, but here on slashdot we like think that open source is always the better option. This is not always the case.

The phrase "almost every virtualization software" is used, but the list of items given has three pieces of software that are impacted and three that are not. In terms of virtualization systems that are in production use by business, I would think that VMware and Hyper-V would take the lion's share (as they are commercial and "supported"), thus being a candidate for "almost every". I think the phrase should have been "almost every open source virtualization software".

Are your night rates less than half of your day rates? I ask because battery charging isn't 100% efficient. I don't know the charging efficiency of the Tesla packs, but many battery types are only around 50% efficient in charging. By 50% efficient, I mean when charging you put in about twice as much energy as you can take back out later.

I didn't get that from the articles. I read the following:

The article may, of course, be incorrect, but from what I have read it appears he will be alone. If he is not alone, and he has a support team, How would the support team keep safe in the event that the iceberg they are all on collapses or tips over? I ask because the article talks about how he has to spend practically all of his time in the ball because the iceberg could tip over at any moment.

I would buy that Bellini or he and his team plan to live on an iceberg as it melts and collapses and their plan to survive during the actual collapse is to take refuge in survival balls, but I have a hard time believing what the article implies to me -- that he would live for a year within and be sustained solely by a survival ball.

Bah. Missed a line. Since external power generation would need to take place outside his sphere, and he his planning on the icebrug flipping, he would need to plan on losing any equipment outside the sphere, therefore he needs to have enough stored energy inside the sphere to last at least until rescue.

So he is going to live in a 3 meter hamster ball on an iceburg for a year? I wonder what his plan to keep warm is. Putting aside the option of getting a sponsorship from Kia and waring a warm fuzzy hamster suit, I suspect there would be some serious technical challenges.

The article says that he plans on a wind generator and solar panels. This would provide energy for light, but probably not for heat. Wind and solar generation would need to take place outside his sphere (as he is "planning" on having the icebug flip over at any time.) His reliable storage (area that won't be lost if the iceburg flips) is limited to the inside of his 3 meter sphere minus his other equipment and living space. This is not much space for fuel storage (in the form batteries, combustible stuff, or calories). I would be interested in seeing what his "energy budget" is in terms of planed energy generation, storage, and use.

So offline mode isn't offline? This sounds like a bigger problem, than incorrect handling of a corrupt certificate.

From the article:

Really? From the Land 'O Lakes website:

I guess they need to add "We also provide a wide variety of incarceration services."

The Internet is untrusted. Period.

Even an intranet should generally be untrusted. Every machine needs to be responsible for defending itself; no machine should assume that other things on the network are good actors.

Another option would be to write availability of high speed internet into the purchase contract for the house - make it a condition of purchase. I took this approach to ensure I wouldn't find out after closing that my house could not get high speed Internet. My offer and contract basically said that I would buy the house if I could successfully have high speed internet installed in advance of the purchase at my cost. The seller accepted the contract, I paid the ISP (in this case DSL from the telephone company) to install the service, the ISP installed the service, and then we closed the house sale. My realtor didn't like it because it was an "unusual" offer, but I said it was a contract and I could put any conditions in it I wanted - the seller just had to agree (and did).

Citation please. While I agree that the TSA is mostly annoying security theater, my personal experience has been that bad weather has delayed me in getting to my destination more that the TSA has.

If you travel that often, why haven't you signed up for the PreCheck program? It lets you go back to the pre 9/11 security screening procedure. Truly frequent travelers can get in the program free via their airline, otherwise the application fee is not significant with respect to other travel costs and is worth it.

You intentionally frequently travel on a plane in tight quarters with lots of other people and you opt not to use deodorant?

Interestingly the "edit this page" link on the CIO page (linked in the article) takes you to GitHub. Is our government actually taking advantage of existing services instead of wasting all kinds of money developing their own content management system? Maybe there is hope.

Says the AC. You can check my other posts to see if I have a history of shilling or not (I don't).

Believe it or not I am just a customer who is generally happy with the service. They are more expensive then the lower tier companies, but this is business travel and I am not paying for it. Their cars are generally not very interesting, but I am not a car guy and I just want to get where I am going. Sometime the cars are not new and dirty, this bugs me. But all these things are generally outweighed by the ease of the checkout process.

Anyway my point wasn't to shill for a particular company, rather to point out that I doubt the largest rental car companies are going to mess with ding and dent scams.

I travel for business and rent cars a couple of times a month. My experience with Hertz and Avis (top tier business targeted rental companies) has been that they don't do the ding and dent scam. If you return a car to one of these guys and it has all for tires, runs, and has no obvious accident dents, you won't get hassled. On the other hand, companies like Thrifty, Budget, and independents tend to give me the super picky inspection process when you check out and return the cars.

I did just rent from Hertz a couple of weeks ago and it had the new camera thing. It got the post it note treatment. Putting aside the new camera thing for a moment, I get really good service from Hertz. I arrive at the airport, walk to the stall number displayed on the big reader board (or in an email I receive about the time I land), get in the car, drive to the exit, show my ID, and I am on my way. No paperwork, sales attempts at upgrades, etc.