I think he was mixing it up with the recent story about flawed hair analysis.

Why bother? As long as they have the right letter (D or R) next to their name, the voting public couldn't care less what they do in office. The re-election rate of Congressmen has been over 90% for most election cycles in the last half century, and it never once dropped below 80% during that period.

asexual?

The summary states that it's only a few GB of data, so why not put it all on an SD card and keep it on your person? You shouldn't have to worry about temperature extremes that way, as even in the case of a home fire in the middle of the night, you'll want to take it along with you to call 911 as you rush you and your family out the door.

Naturally, you'll still want to encrypt it in case your phone is lost/stolen, but it's probably by far the safest, easiest, and most secure solution.

The advantages are those which aren't listed: the appliances will *also* send that recipe and ingredient list to your HMO so they can jack up your rates and to advertisers who can then send you targeted advertising.

Oh, you wanted features for individuals? Well, the main feature is that eventually you won't be able to purchase a device *without* IoT

If you need to use COM components, and you don't want to require admin rights, you register them in HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. After that, it just works.

The sad part is, it would have not have taken any more time to Google that than to find how to disable UAC through the installer.

Actually, there's a better analogy I can think of. The teacher leaves a spare key under the doormat of their home, tells the entire class about it, and then one (or more) of the kids gets the idea to place a lewd poster or life-size cut-out just inside the entrance, so the teacher will see it upon opening the front door.

It's still stupid for the teacher to do so, but the kids are also still trespassing on the teacher's property.

Now, when I was growing up, doing either would have gotten you suspended. A felony charge is a bit excessive for a harmless prank done by a stupid kid.

That's actually for the best. It is never in your best interests to air grievances in an exit interview.

The best-case scenario is that they might pay lip service to your grievances and ultimately ignore them. After all, if they were going to fix any of the problems, they would have done so before you decided to leave.

The worst-case scenario is that you've now burned all bridges with your current company and any future companies your boss and co-workers ever move to.

I've simply gotten into the habit of showing white space characters in any editor I use, so I always know exactly what to expect.

That just means the school is better preparing its students for the real world.

Celebrities deal with what the majority thinks. Everyone else has to deal with the people around them, whose beliefs and actions can significantly deviate from the public at large. For a regular person, your sexual preference or religion (just to name two examples) can still invite prejudice and violence in some areas of the country.

Given how quickly and severely those prejudices can change, I would just assume keep my privacy. Just look at the reaction to those following Islam pre- and post-9/11. While my particular tastes and idiosyncrasies may not put me in any danger today, I'll make no bets about tomorrow.

That's obviously because we can trust the police and other authorities more than the general public. Authorities would never abuse massive surveillance databases.

What's more important is what the volume buyers (i.e., businesses) do. Many businesses bulk purchase hardware and re-image it. You can bet that 100+ machine purchase will generate a backlash when re-imaging it to Windows 7 so mission critical apps still work results in bricked machines.

IBM and Microsoft collaborated on OS/2. When the partnership dissolved, Microsoft went on to make NT out of the result. I would assume it was kosher, since IBM certainly could have crushed Microsoft at that point if anything ran afoul of patents or copyright. Still, it was amusing seeing OS/2 error messages in the early NT versions (e.g., if you tried to start the machine with a non-bootable floppy).

IBM Model M keyboards last forever. Sure, they're noisy, and they're heavy, but unless you go out of your way to break one, they last decades. In fact, you are more likely to replace the keyboard because it's input port has disappeared on your new computer than because it has stopped functioning.