This isn't the worst way to do it. One of my customers uses
a VPN client that intercepts DNS lookups with a filter driver. In applications and the UI it *looks like* you're talking to one DNS server, but a network trace shows no DNS traffic at all because it's being shoveled across an https connection back to their managed cloud service with the reliability of (insert colorful metaphor here about Florida drivers on Wisconsin roads in a blizzard in January).

This makes troubleshooting awful. :|

Cyanide.... ah, you mean Vitamin B17, from the pits of stone fruits, part of many anti-cancer herbal treatments.

No, I'm not making this up. It's a thing.

Nasa (and partners) does a good of managing their archive. The technical reports server https://ntrs.nasa.gov/ has given me many hours of edutainment.

The fix for this is to make student loan debt cancellable in bankruptcy after n years. I don't understand why that's such a difficult thing to get pushed through.

Making 20-year loans to 18-year-olds with no income, no job, and intentions to spend the next four years in some state of inebriation should not be a business plan underwritten by the US government.

I'm not saying it was Aliens, but...

The lack of debris is surprising, but the Pacific is a very big place.

Look around you and pick 10% of jobs you don't want done.

Jokes about middle management aside, a shrinking labor pool is extremely problematic for the people that need that labor to stay alive, e.g. You and I in our elderly years.

America doesn't want to be dependent on China, and China doesn't want to be dependent on America. We took a swat at them for steel price fixing, they hit back with rare earth metals, we came back and cut off their semiconductor supplies, and now they are hitting back.

They are betting on hard times in America. They've offloaded a bunch of our bond exposure and are actively insourcing technologies. Simultaneously, we're spending like drunken sailors and actively trying to find the "next China" somewhere else in Asia.

Globally the only continents not looking at a population shortage in 2050 are Africa and Antarctica, so something is going to give. We live in interesting times.

"how confident can one be that hypervisors will be solid security boundaries?"

As a data point, Microsoft has a substantial bug bounty program for Hyper-V, [up to...] a quarter of a million USD for a working/well documented RCE. That's a non-trivial bet on Hypervisor security.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

I find it beneficial for making videos. Recording with OBS works objectively better with Android on Windows apps vs. inside e.g. BlueStacks.

most of the PHEV problems they get are with the ICE power trains because people drive PHEVs around on electric all the time and don't run the ICE power train regularly

Talking to Chevy Volt owners, this was anecdotally the case as well. It would automatically engage the ICE powertrain at intervals to keep it alive or e.g. if you wanted to run the heat, but the majority of daily driving was EV-only.

Bias warning, I work for Microsoft, but I'm ignorant of this area generally.

The vast majority of Microsoft's data centers are for Azure cloud services. These replace capacity in customer data centers. If that's correct, shouldn't we include a comparison to water and power usage in those facilities? My intuition is profit motive and economies of scale would drive cloud DCs to be significantly more efficient than enterprise DCs.

I read the headline at least three times trying to figure out how one determines the ionization state of a human being.