Errr *DON'T deviate.
Stupid, stupid. Proofreading necessary.

These middle class Russians of which you speak sound nice like KKK members are probably nice if you're white and Christian.
Last I checked, niceness is a trait that applies to how you treat all people, and not just those that deviate from one's small-minded ideas of what categories people should fall into.

The big difference is college isn't legally required. The only students who will go are those who want to go, and colleges won't be inclined to let kids slip through with a D-minus-minus just to get them through the system. The reason people graduate HS practically illiterate is because you can't force someone to learn. Make it optional, and require passing grades to stay in, and the problem is solved. If you don't pass, you don't get to go. If you fail, you're disqualified from the free program. (I would imagine. Didn't actually RTFA.)

This won't single-handedly solve all the problems this country faces with regard to education, but I think it's a great idea.

1,700 words into this and one of his two conclusions is that flat-rate boxes are flat rate? (Up to 70 lbs which, IIRC, is printed on the side of the fucking box.) Kill me now.

... that involve me turning around for up to 30 seconds. It's cute. The lesson here is, if you let your machine out of your sight for a while, don't be surprised if it comes back rooted. Isn't rule #1 of computer security always "If you don't have physical security, you don't have security"?

What exactly is the vector here? Give someone a thunderbolt hard drive and hope they plug it in and hope they run a firmware update while the drive is connected? Oh no, this could affect potentially dozens of people per decade! Outside of very targeted attacks, who will get hit by this? And if you think you are targeted, the solution is simple: don't have anything but the power cord plugged in when updating firmware. (Which is how you are supposed to do it anyway.)

This isn't exactly a drive-by download.

I don't think he even knows this site has comments. Or that it's a website at all. He probably thinks he's just singing into a can.

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I only recently finished convincing all my non-technie friends that the Internet is not a series of tubes; now I have to start explaining to them that bandwidth does not actually come in buckets. Do you realize how many pounds of email I'll have to write about this? Fuck it, I quit.

They're called hybrid words

Just a few favorites from their list of fifty...

Automobile - a wheeled passenger vehicle, from Greek _ (autos) "self" and Latin mobilis "moveable"
Biathlon - from the Latin bis meaning "twice" and the Greek _ (athlon) meaning "contest"
Claustrophobia - from the Latin claustrum meaning _confined space_ and Greek _ (phobos) meaning "fear"
Dysfunction - from the Greek _- (dys-) meaning "bad" and the Latin functio
Genocide - From the Greek _ (genos) meaning "race, people" and the Latin c_dere meaning "to kill"
Geostationary - From the Greek _ (g_) meaning "Earth" and the Latin stationarius, from statio, from stare meaning "to stand"
Hexadecimal - from Greek _ (hex), meaning "six", and Latin decimus meaning "tenth"
Metadata - from the Greek _ (meta) and the Latin data meaning "given" from dare
Monoculture - from the Greek _ (monos) meaning _one, single_ and the Latin cultura
Nonagon - from the Latin nonus meaning "ninth" and the Greek _ (g_nia) meaning "angle"
Quadriplegia - from the Latin quattuor meaning "four" and the Greek _ (pl_g_) "stroke", _ (pl_ssein) meaning "to strike";
Sociology - from the Latin socius, "comrade", and the Greek _ (logos) meaning "word", "reason", "discourse"
Television - from the Greek _ (t_le) meaning "far" and the Latin visio meaning "seeing"
 
... but I agree, "starivore" is right up (down?) there with "staycation". :-)

(All Greek characters replaced with '_' so Slashdot won't shit all over itself. Unicode? WTF is that? It's only 2015!)

Finally, a bold visionary at the head of MS who does not believe that 640k ought to be enough for anybody!

Totally agree. It continues to mystify me that Slashdot thinks it's a newspaper.

So, tell me again how I text a message to your company's phone number, extension 3007...?

>most voice mail services allow call back

I've never seen one that does. Often times if someone's calling from a smaller provider, the voicemail states the number as "an outside caller". A lot of good that's going to do :/

Bell Canada - Call Display $10.95 /month (landline)
Link (click on "full details". Yes they have bundles but not everyone wants that.)

> I also didn't know that you could have a phone without caller ID

Unless you use a VOIP line or a burner (pay-as-you-go) cell phone caller ID is always an extra for both landlines and cellphones. For cellphones it's often bundled with voicemail or some other feature so you'll usually end up getting it ... but, yes, it's very possible to get a smartphone with no caller ID or voicemail.