Well - some move on electrons now.

Agreed - if we stop wasting money on say military misadventure we can start building interstellar ships in low earth orbit now.

Indeed - back in the late 90's I worked for a company that sold POS software. It was installed on Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 machines.

Nowadays I believe XP is the dominant system.

Actually they're making a Muslim Martyr out of the guy. That's not going to work out very well.

An email address that ended in notaol.com

Until you've seen a pole pig aka power transformer explode on a pole. All I saw was this huge flash of light and then could see the transformer itself launched through the sky.

That was immediately followed by watching the connections arc until the circuit breakers kicked in.

I wonder that too. I can recall the heady days of Windows where smart admins would test updates on a system with all their software to see what it broke and how to fix it.
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But the versioning can't be an worse than Ubuntu lately. Constant updates. I understand it's to correct functional and security issues. But perhaps once every couple weeks?

I'm tangentially working for a defense contractor. The whole business is awash in money.

Because every state pretty much requires and emissions test annually or bi-annually. It involves plugging a reader into the OBD-II port and downloading any condition codes, and then the standard tailpipe sniff.

What makes it so gross polluters are still out there is because after failing said emissions check, a waiver can be obtained.

Several years ago why would I want any Microsoft pseudo product on my Linux servers?

Not as if Linux doesn't already have a Power Shell called BASH or Bourne Again SHell for you noobs.

12.04LTE to 14.04LTE no thank you. I had a Dell laptop with 12.04LTE on it and one day it asked if I wanted to go to 14.04. So it downloaded everything and when it came back up it was command line only, no gui whatsoever. I had to download and install Gnome manually. That has soured me a bit on Ubuntu.

I guess we've found the one guy who didn't embrace broadband. Were I the guy I'd go after AOL for switching the dialup site.

That said, how much time did he spend online to rack up that much of a charge. From what I can find during peak hours it's 42 cents a minute, off peak 36.5 cents a minute which I still find extortion.

If we average the two we get 39.25 cents a minute we get 61906 minutes - 1031 hours - or 42 days of constant online activity.

I am a sub-contractor for a project that burns data onto encrypted FIPS compliant hard drives. If the FBI gets their way that puts us in breach of contract with another government agency.

Will my baggage have a better probability of following me to my destination in the same time frame.

I completely concur with you. The current system dates back to the 16th century and we really need to move forward. THe Montessori system has it's benefits but I think critical thinking skills need to be pushed too.