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Comment Re: Politicians? Led by Trump. (Score 0) 412

Very careful parsing of his words right there. Pity that most of his supporters are not nearly as smart as you are and will take the intended message to be that the virus is a hoax and no worse than the flu (or car accidents). Convenient that the takeaway of closely parsing him like a smart person would is plausibly deniable, while the implied message that the mouth breathers will receive is wrong and destructive.

Comment What about onboard security jobs? (Score 1) 186

If most long haul freight is moved by driverless trucks programmed not to kill people whose cars break down on the road in front of them, there's gonna be a big resurgence in highwayman type banditry. These driverless trucks are going to need guards to keep people from stopping them and helping themselves to what's inside.

Comment Breaking the competition is SOP for Comcast (Score 5, Interesting) 142

25 years ago when my family finally went from antenna to Comcast cable, one thing they did when installing their cable runs was to snip the connectors off then end of all of the in-house antenna coax that was there before... Tough to go back to antenna when you can't hook it up any more.

Comment Re:Identify a project, learn the tools to do it. (Score 1) 312

20 years ago I used to do some PERL stuff, so regex idea came to mind... but then I recalled how much better people said Python was then PERL for most purposes... and the Coursera class from UMich was really engaging... Dr. Chuck's way of Python clicked, and I could finish one of his month-long classes in a weekend... and then turn around and apply it to my project. I also used a Udacity? (maybe Udemy... don't remember which one) class on JS to pick up enough to redesign my webpage... it still looks 15 years old, but it is now all interconnected with JS, making updates much much easier...

There are great classes out there for free... find a teacher you like, and learn. Not all of them are the heavy-Indian-accented impenetrable ones that you do run into quite often.

Comment Identify a project, learn the tools to do it. (Score 1) 312

I'm in a similarly situated position. I'm a lawyer. I have a bunch of stuff in my email inbox that serves as records of travel miles I can deduct. For a few years I'd spend the hours manually entering this stuff into a spreadsheet monthly. Then I realized that there must be an easier way to deal with it... so I found the Coursera class on Python for Data Analytics, learned enough Python to scan an inbox for the messages that indicated dates of travel, and spent a day hacking together something that would rifle through my inbox, extract all of the travel emails, and dump them into a .xls file.

You need a goal... then research the tools that people think would get you to it.

Comment Re:Way around it (Score 1) 581

Here's the list of WU KB#s that I've been removing recently to counter this stuff:

from CMD you can run the remove operation using this format:

wusa /uninstall /kb:2505438 /quiet /norestart

I do it to all of the following:

kb:2902907, kb:2952664, kb:2977759, kb:2990214, kb:3021917, kb:3022345, kb:3035583, kb:3044374, kb:3050265, kb:3065987, kb:3068708, kb:3075249, kb:3075851, kb:3075853, kb:3080149

Comment Google Fiber TOS? (Score 2) 84

What sort of TOS does Google bundle the Fiber service with? I know the for-profit telecoms all exclude resale or commercial use... would Google Fiber work as a connection point for a WISP that connects, say, a rural valley with no other options? Spreading out 1GB of service over a bunch of households wirelessly would be a fine way to get them hooked up... and if Goog is willing to serve as their connection point... interesting things could happen.

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