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Comment Re:Not sure how this will help them (Score 3, Informative) 82

I agree entirely that very few folks will immediately recognize the Scout name, but at least VW did come by the name honestly, after acquiring the company that had the rights to it. But even if there had never been a Scout vehicle produced, it's still a pretty good name for this type of vehicle.

Comment Re:Ride is worth it, awesome (Score 2) 129

And there's an even higher additional pass you can buy per day that lets you cut to the front of the line as many times as you want for everything except some Harry Potter stuff.

The key to this is to stay at Portofino Bay or one of the other hotels with the Universal Express Unlimited benefit, and then everybody staying with you gets the benefit as part of the hotel cost. I put my family of 5 in one room, and the stay was very cost effective.

Comment Re:I'll save everyone some reading (Score 1) 183

It's pretty hard to get random people on the street to hand you cash, then be OK with you handing less back.

I'm amazed that the manager didn't notice earlier. Even in the 1990s (when I last worked retail), the point-of-sale system counted the number of times the cash drawer / till was opened without a sale (called "No Sale" events). If you had too many No Sale events, the Loss Prevention people would be interested in you.

Comment Re:This is NOTHING like the Apple one (Score 2) 86

Perhaps it was different on other models, but on my 16" MacBook Pro (2019) with a Touch Bar, the escape key is a physical key. The physical function keys are not visible, as you noted. They appear on the Touch Bar when the "fn" key is held down, replacing (on my Touch Bar) the volume, dictation, and screenshot special purpose keys. I don't understand why you do not consider this a "pad with dynamic keys."

Comment Re:All for this (Score 1) 406

Wrong - from the PDF:

97 3. Classroom instruction by school personnel or third
98 parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur
99 in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age
100 appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in
101 accordance with state standards.

There's nothing in there about "and tell them to keep it a secret from their parents*" -- you made that up. Further, you neglected to mention the 'OR' clause on line 99 that limits what teachers can say well beyond grade 3.

*Perhaps you were thinking about the two earlier sections (note how the above starts with "3") that refer to education records being accessible to parents. These sections do not explicitly sexual orientation, but instead cover all aspects of a student's health.

Comment Re:Lessons learned (Score 4, Interesting) 68

Applications that save passwords are considered a best practice at my current employer, which is very security-conscious. I'm not sure what the alternative to single-factor biometric authentication is... dual-factor? I don't see how that helps if the attackers have access to the victim. Perhaps you mean hardware key as an additional factor -- that is valid, but then again, the victim is probably carrying the hardware key around, so that doesn't help.

I would say one takeaway is, "Only use cryptocurrency exchanges which mandate waiting periods for withdrawals to new crypto addresses."

Comment At least $20 an hour? (Score 2) 48

I'm in QA and was making more than $20 / hour, with full benefits, in 1998. I'm shocked that Activision is getting away with paying folks less than this today. I'm guess it's all manual testing? I couldn't imagine being able to hire anybody who's fizzbuzz-capable for anywhere near $20 / hour.

Comment Re:One fewer competitor (Score 1) 57

Protecting the MGM brand is not necessarily a worthwhile goal or in the public interest. If MGM were broken up and sold for parts, then the parts would presumably go to different companies. Maybe Netflix would get the catalog, Amazon would get the real estate, Disney would get the projects in progress, etc. Breaking it up would still reduce competition, but keeping it together will reduce competition more.

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