Parent is correct. There were no commercial US flights on 9/12/2001, but the rest of the world still moved along.

Al least in any sane system, and Windows has started, a few decades late, to use sound OS design practices. So no, not "full control".

I haven't had "full control" of my Windows computer in a while. Maybe I can use this 7zip vulnerability to get something back from this beast of Windows 10.

A closer reading of the Act (see pages 857-858) says that the parents can't be held criminally or civilly liable if they let their kids - with permission - get to school in an "age appropriate manner." It also says that the Act itself doesn't supersede any local laws.

So: if a state or locality has decided or later decides to specifically make a law specifically against "unattended kids going to school," that law would take precedence over this act. "States rights" are still in effect here.

I found my upgrade to break the existing VMWare Player 6.x.x Bridged Networking. It would just turn off the connection entirely as it couldn't find a valid NIC. NAT networking was unaffected.

A repair installation of Player fixed it, but shouldn't have been necessary. I'm not sure how other VMWare products are affected.

It hasn't suddenly become a thing. People have been leasing cars forever.

Until this year, Illinois had the distinction of being a state which charged FULL sales tax on the purchase price of a leased car. If you dumped the car after the term, you'd get none of the difference. If you decided to KEEP the car, you'd pay sales tax (again) on the residual. Leasing was only popular with people bad at math and not willing to gamble with reselling a car later.

I remember my first cell phone and contract in the early 90's. Salesman: "the phone is free, and then service is $40/month."

Me: "What if I decide to just buy a phone?"

Salesman: "Then the service is $30/month."

Me: "So, I'm basically financing the phone into the monthly service, but like... forever?"

(awkward pause).

Me: "I think I'll buy the phone."

It was several years later that they all decided to screw the consumer twice: by charging the same monthly charge whether you bought the phone or not.

It looks like it got back in: from their 2014 Strategic Plan (sorry for the PDF):

Page 6

"Our Mission: Drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality, and stewardship of Earth."

Funny enough, I bought an F-91W because of this press. I was starting to realize that most of the time I was taking my phone out of my pocket, it was to check the time. Every time I did that, I was taking myself away from what I was doing for way too long, and it was one more chance to drop an expensive phone.

So: I went looking for a cheap watch. I first hunted down the F-91W because of the terrorist association press, and the Amazon reviews are awesome. It's also a common watch sold at US military PXs, so I'm surprised that it would also be a watch that could get you picked up in Afghanistan. While looking at that one, I noticed that Casio actually makes a bunch of fairly decent looking analog watches for under $15 (MQ24-1E and MQ-24-1BLK are nice). They last about two years before the battery goes out, at which point you can replace the battery or the watch, and I had bought one of each over the past several years, before settling with the F-91W.

It's a tank. I wear it during martial arts, swimming, showering... nothing seems to phase it.

BT Sync - Aka "Bittorrent Sync" aka "Sync" is pretty close. In that setup, your own computers act as the cloud. Android and Linux clients, etc. I primarily use it to keep photos backed up from my phone to home, but also keep folders and movies on my home computer which sync with my phone as well.

It's not a "cloud solution" in the normal sense - you can't keep files on the cloud and dynamically choose which ones to push around later, but it's CLOSE and may suit your needs.

I'm not sure why this got modded down. It seems completely in-tune with the thread, and makes some very good points. I'd bump you up if I could have.

Maybe vacuum cleaner manufacturers can work with this... or prostitutes.

Would it have been too hard to have explained "IoT" in TFS? I spent a long time trying to parse it until I hit on "Internet of Things". Really? What we used to call a bridge or router, is now a "IoT" hub or gateway (maybe both? TFS is vague). IoT is NOT widespread enough to be dropped like this.

Come on, guys. At least make TFS standalone.

Could also be the wife doesnt want any unsightly computers in the main area and the crawlspace is directly under it and drilling a hole is easy.

A friend of mine bought a replica antique AM radio off of Craigslist and gutted it, then attached a motherboard to the bottom of it and some vent holes in the back. Looks beautiful.

I do not use a watch anymore since I have a phone that tells me the time.

I eventually got a regular watch when I realized that every time I reached to my phone in my pocket to check the time was one more time I'd probably drop the phone. The watch SAVES me money over time. Also: visibly checking your phone when you're with someone usually tells them you're bored, while a quick glance at a watch isn't as bad. Finally: when you check a watch, you're done right away, while checking your phone for the time can often lead to an endless cycle of checking email, text messages, Facebook, whatever; you can lose a lot of time that way.

I was debating getting the F-91W, just for the nostalgia of it (and the Amazon reviews are pretty funny), but ended up finding the MQ-24-1(Black) and MQ24-1E instead. They look decent as well, and take a beating.

Exactly - as long as we continue to call it "Identity Theft" and not "Credit/Financial Fraud", it will have the perception of being the victim's problem and fault. If you get your car window smashed and things stolen out of your car, it's often perceived as partially your fault for where you parked, what you had exposed, etc. In the case of so-called "identity theft", the actual crime can be taking place miles away, and you may have no realistic way of preventing it. The bank has a problem - not me.

My wife and I are even considering allowing our older child to take the Metro (public transit) to ballet by herself next year when she's in middle school.

A dog takes the bus to the park by itself every day, and it's a cute, human-interest story. A child does it, and everyone loses their minds.

I'm not sure if we trust the dogs more, or the dog-nappers more.