confirming for the bandwidth challenged. Also firefighting foam on the pavement.

There are interesting longitudinal lines across the scorched area - is the composite body laid down in strips?

Yeah, but at the same time, their "suggestions" carry some weight. Certain DefCon folks have pwned the Feds more than once... when they had far less reason to do it.

Flamebait story titles are highly correlated with non-productive comment sections to a degree such that the click revenue from my views won't increase beyond this point. I wonder how many others behave similarly.

Oh, no, this one isn't "nothing", you've read it wrong. What they mean by this is "we have equipped your local police force will military equipment and trained them how to treat the local residents as enemy soldiers." And they've done a really good job at it. They're now using no-knock paramilitary raids for pretty much any suspect, whether they are considered potentially violent or not. And killing the pets.

I think the GP was referring to the military contracts, not necessarily the medical research. Be that as it may, it seems wasteful (and ... cronyish) to hire a powerful Federal administrator that can use influence and connections to obtain grant money rather than allow the grant applications to pass or fail based on the merits of the research involved. They've already gotten too focused on "monetizing patents", which can bring in a lot of money for treating things like sexual dysfunction and balding, than on work to actually cure diseases that cause suffering and death.

Do the "UC Officials" realize that J. does not use email? I suspect she doesn't even know how to use a computer. I'm not convinced someone like that is really suited to run a university system, where students should have those skills, and are in an environment where communicating electronically is essential.

On the other hand distributions like Fedora, Arch, Mandriva forks or Gentoo did the right thing in following the "latest and greatest"

I think the trick here, for the governance of the distros, is when the latest isn't the greatest. "Follow upstream" is an easy approach, but some sort of criteria ought to be thought about for when doing so is going to cause damage.

My recent Fedora upgrade pain was around the MariaDB/mysql swap-out. Improper dependencies aside, that's the kind of change that was handled properly.

and a cry went up from the dark corners of campus, "woo-hoo, strip-search the co-eds."

Yes, but ComputerShopper at articles too...

Riiiight .... I read Computer Shopper for the articles. Yeah, that's the ticket, the articles.

I used to buy quite a bit from NewEgg. Before they charged me a $350 restocking fee for an unopened extra switch that had been ordered for a project. Amazon Prime gets it here faster anyway.

This one might just go away due to market pressures. USPS won't bring a package to my house, but UPS and FedEx are here several times a week. At this point, USPS has no cost advantage for packages, so I actively avoid them whenever possible. The cost curves show USPS becoming far more expensive than UPS or FedEx in the next few years, so I'm not sure who will use them for package shipping anymore.

Seems to me the point is to ensure remote people get access, not to make the system have a higher utility overall.

There are places in my town that aren't on the plan to get broadband in the next 10-year window. None of them are more than three miles from a decent fiber and many of them are low-income. So it'll be 2024 and they'll still only have dial-up (especially those on the north side of hills).

Meanwhile the telecomm companies are charging $30-$60K per mile of cable pull if those people want to get hooked up, thanks to their monopolies. Seems like cronyism as usual to me.

Geez, Australia really is our bitch, ain't it?

You folks down there must be really proud.

Diff EQ and Linear Algebra were also very shaky for me, they did not make sense until later in grad school when I finally found more relevant physical examples. Now I review them in engineering courses when I teach and I make a point to pull out various applications more explicitly.

I wish math profs would do a better job on this topic. At GT I had a great prof that taught calculus for engineers. He got it. Some math profs don't. They won't let engineering profs teach basic math from accreditation standpoint AFAIK, even though it is like requiring a novelist teach basic grammar.

Read between the lines: "We can replace all of them with immigrants, but only if we can prove there's nobody who can fill the position. I know! Let's draft the requirements so they're impossible to fill, then hire the same person we would have anyway at half the price because we had to 'settle'. Brilliant!"

Oh wait... I thought you were joking!

The SHA1 of "badg3r5" really is "78a7ecf065324604540ad3c41c3bb8fe1d084c50".

http://www.sha1-lookup.com/index.php?q=78a7ecf065324604540ad3c41c3bb8fe1d084c50

HP used "badgers" in leet-speak for an NSA backdoor? Smells like they wanted people to know, to me. Maybe they didn't like what they were supposed to be doing, and stuck their tongue firmly in cheek at the implementation stage? "Screw the NSA - we'll give them a back door if they want it so much - and we'll make it so that researchers find it easily, so our business isn't damaged in the long term ("If we wanted you data so much, we'd have done a better job of hiding it - blame your government")