Thought he was going to ban wifey for a moment.

Yes, they could try to locate everyone that manages to use banned technology like this, but as commodity-level technology designed to be used by even unskilled individuals, they're not going to be able to stop people from using technology. All they'll be able to do is to punish them after finding them.

Don't misunderstand me, my wife has a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from MIT and has worked in the aerospace and defense industries for her whole career, and through her alumni club I've been friends with a bunch of other engineers and materials scientists. They have just about all done very well.

On the other hand I know two people with masters' degrees that are basically doing white-collar clerical work. I have no college degree, most of the people on my team don't have degrees, and I'm on the same team and at a roughly comparable role with those that do have college degrees. And I have a technical job too.

My point is that having a degree can be lucrative, but it can also provide nothing of additional value. If it provides nothing of additional value then it's an expense that isn't providing a return, so it's actually a detriment, not an advantage, and the degree of detriment is based on how much it's saddling the individual with debt.

The most important takeaway today's kids should learn from the success of people like Gates, Musk, et. al. is - PICK YOUR PARENTS WISELY.

I was rather impressed when someone got DOOM to run on a color printer.

And of course the frame-rate jokes were pretty damn funny even though it wasn't running by printing a frame at a time on paper, amusing as that would have been.

And it's absolutely not a process ripe for abuse by a malcontent handing the President of the United States something for executive signature, that the President of the United States doesn't even look at or read - he just accepts at face value that his aide would never lie and signs it.

TL;DR: what's the difference between an "autopen" and an old asshole so far into cognitive decline that he just signs anything put in front of him?

For that to be even remotely true, all of the following would also have to be true, which immediately disproves your hypothesis by observing easily seen reality:

1. somehow the public at-large became "informed" in the recent past with ever-diminishing quality of signal coming from reputable news sources, because "reputable" news sources are too busy chasing outrage for dollars

2. somehow the public at-large has completely disconnected from the propaganda networks such as Fox News, NewsMax, OAN, etc. that actively lie to their audience in order to get fact-based information from people that actually care about facts in their reporting, and nobody noticed.

3. government economic data was unreliable - you have not proven this central premise of your argument. You just threw it out there as if it's God's written gospel without warranting it with any evidence. Yes, there are corrections to past months, but there have ALWAYS been corrections to past reporting periods, and has been for decades. That is all factored in - you don't trust the absolute newest measurement period without padding the margin because it WILL be corrected.

4. government economic data is still unreliable - without proving it was unreliable to begin with, you cannot assert that it is still unreliable. There is an argument to be made that it is being highly politicized through the firing of bureau chiefs for presenting unfavorable data, but without disproving the data you're pissing in the wind on that too.

Economists the world over have always held that the data coming from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the gold standard in economic reporting, emulated by national governments across the globe. I think I'm more likely to believe the career experts - some with Nobel prizes in economics - over "hsthompson69" on a little-known internet backwater like Slashdot who can't even bother to back up their asserted opinions with anything based in fact.

How much shit are you taking with you to a meeting?

You're not living there, you're discussing things with people and taking some notes. Maybe presenting something on a shared screen with the equipment already in the room.

Why do you need 3+ USB ports for that, assuming any wireless technology is in use whatsoever?

Stop bringing half your god damn desk to a 30 minute meeting.

spin them up with an angle grinder arbor and let them go and watch them flyyyyy!

Let's face it - if you're spending $1.5B for AOL, you're paying $1.5B for a list of email addresses owned by people too thick to figure out how to create a different email account somewhere else.

That's a captive audience that you can spam the shit out of forever... or at least until they keel over from old age; better consult with the actuarials on what single-digit number of years the mean is for that customer base because you know they're all old AF.

I'll just ignore your non-performant software until it's either fixed, or hardware advances sufficiently to make it work as expected.

In the meantime, he won't see a cent of my money, and by the time either of those two conditions are met, it will be at a discount anyway because it will be months / years old.

Fuck that guy. Instead of calling your customers names and bitching about their totally legitimate performance complaints, try making software that meets customer expectations. It's like these people learned nothing from the Cyberpunk fiasco.

Just in the nick of time.

But can it play Crysis?

I didn't need more tchotchkes. Putting a CD in the microwave for a few seconds is amusing the first time, possibly even the second or third, but the novelty wears off very quickly.

It's not just that, it's a problem of too many students compared to the positions in the workplace. For some occupations there are more graduates annually than there are jobs in the whole profession. Communications and Journalism immediately springs to mind.

For a lot of college students, they go to college because due to societal pressure they're supposed to go to college. That doesn't mean that they'll end up any better off in the workforce after college though. And more insidiously it causes employers to place requirements or preferences for college graduates on jobs that are not served by that educational experience.