Do commercial cloud providers already connect to Internet2? Should they? If they did, would it scratch this itch?

Is that what TFA already proposes, just in different words?

But But, this is for your safety. You should always give up your liberty to be safe! If everyone around you agrees to monitor everything you do for the best of society, you should submit and do what the elected officials tell you to! Its all for the common good.

Good intentions and all.

In WSL, If you are like me and upgraded your 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS, it broke on libc,

  vi /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6:amd64.postinst

line 193

                telinit u 2>/dev/null || true ; #sleep 1

apt --fix-broken install

The test and measurement division known as Keysight was never closely related to any of the computer-hardware divisions.

And the server-hardware division known as HP Enterprise is actually Compaq, absorbed by merger. It doesn't even share much blood with the desktop PCs division.

...from the 32,768 power-on hours bug?

I have a MSM plugin that filters out main stream media, i dont watch youtube to get pimped tv, i cut cable, i dont want youtube to be cable tv.

Also, using the pocket tube extension, I can put my favorite channels in groups. Cooking/Food in 1 group, Cars/Auto/Wheels in another, Tech/Electronic in another. Music talk and a Music video groups. I dont want google controlling me, I'm such a bad rebellious consumer...

Same goes with facebook and reddit, I use plugins to de-authoritarian the control me, I do what I want.

Now if I could just fix android, no I dont want to share everything to my contacts first via sms, and I cant turn that crap off. Google needs to stop forcing its views on how people should share data and behave.

How are you being controlled today? Remember M$ Metro?

I'm not supposed to say which of these projects I worked on, but it was one of the most fun moments of my career, seeing it move for the first time.

After weeks of wiring, adapting plans that were evolving ever so slightly even as we built the truck, bringing up pieces so the software and integration team could do their part, crawling all over every inch of that monster frame, I knew what to expect. I knew it would be nearly silent, just a faint whine from the motor-axle. And I knew it would work, because we'd spun the wheels with the axles jacked in the air, to get all the encoders configured.

But it still took my breath away.

Because, you see, the whole rest of the prototype garage was still full of diesel trucks. They'd roar to life and rattle in and out, doing whatever their research programs were doing. I didn't have much insight into that, but I got accustomed to associating that racket with every moving truck. No matter what acoustic strides get made in passenger-car diesels, heavy-duty trucks never seem to get quieter. And after a few weeks in the garage, I was as used to it as anyone.

So when we finally lowered the jacks and moved the work tables out of the way, and it was time for the truck to move, part of my reflexes just knew that noise would accompany it. Even as I'd just spent hundreds of hours making sure the opposite was true, it nevertheless came as a shock. Seeing something that big just glide across the building with nary a hiss, I couldn't help but feel something serious had just changed.

I have asthma, and my doctor has advised me to take extra precautions. So when the email came out saying that remote work was even an option, I jumped on it and asked to begin immediately.

Difficulty is that my work is physical -- at the moment, building small wiring harnesses -- so it can't be done purely from a keyboard. So I'll pick up boxes of parts, and drop off completed units, off-hours (I know the building's alarm code) to minimize possible airborne exposure.

I'm still trying to figure out how best to sanitize the parts, if any. I've considered tossing the whole box in the oven preheated to 200F for a few minutes, since I believe that'll inactivate the virus and I know the parts and wires are all fine at that temperature.

I just closed the window and came back here to see if anyone had commented on it. Yup.

It's like a student just learned how to use the effects tool and decided that an absolute overdose thereof would somehow make it more watchable.

Sorry, BBC, whatever story you were trying to tell got lost in all the glitches.

Excellent article about why this is nothing new: https://berthub.eu/articles/po...

tl;dr: Through a combination of technical brain-drain and outsourcing, the providers have long since ceded control of their networks to vendors, contractors, and layers of sub-contractors. Huawei is just the tip of the iceberg, albeit a very real and threatening tip.

A flagship in 2013, the Galaxy S4 had half the RAM but otherwise nearly identical specs, a removable battery, a microSD slot, a headphone jack, and a glove-capable touchscreen.

And it can be had NIB/NOS for $65.

What's exciting about this again?

I'm not a podcast person myself, but on a recent roadtrip, my right-seat put on a few episodes of Darknet Diaries. Once I got over my initial annoyance with the over-the-top pseudo-badass tone in the intro and stuff, I was really impressed with the content.

I haven't listened to any more since, but I've recommended it to a bunch of people, including some who aren't quite as technical. Jack's way of explaining technical things with analogies, and sticking with that analogy throughout a given show, is really great.

If I had a longer commute, this would probably be on my list.

Windows MR works with SteamVR now, and with the Samsung Odyssey plus on sale everywhere for 230 bux, people are buying it like crazy.
Its cheaper because you dont need external sensors, but its also not as accurate, but accurate enough for most pc games.

I decided to pick one up at this price, and Its rather good, not perfect, But for a 200 dollar headset, I don't expect it to match my sync gaming monitor.

Right now, Great for watching Blueray 3d movies, 3D 360 Content on many video providers, make sure you have 4k video enabled on the streams (including youtube vr) Its like sitting in a theater, and it has good headphones included.

But still has some of the common issues, god rays, slow blacks (not a problem on higher end vr headsets) MVR works mostly on SteamVR. No screen door, but the lenses do reflect light.

I'd say at a 200 dollar price point, people will jump on. But 1500 bux for a high end headset not counting the high end gpu, thats a road block for people.

I hear flight sims, driving games and watching videos are the sweet spot for these devices.

I've seen numerous stories of out of state people buying rural farms to retire on, then complaining about neighboring farms are loud and smell, then jump straight to suing the neighboring farms.

There is an area north of Spokane WA on highway 2, lots of cattle farms, but developers learned they could split the farms into 20 acres plots for mc' mansions and sell to out of staters (Mostly Californians), They even put in high-speed internet to these rural 800K+ homes, paved drive ways to the dirt roads, Average homes on small plots still go for 150K starting, Quite the sight to see BMW's and Mercedes behind tractors on dirt/gravel roads.

This is happening everywhere in the USA as house prices are so high, and people sell for a major profit to retire in smaller rural farming towns.

My neighborhood crime map shows most crime in my area is from the supermarket for shoplifting, and I live in a nice area. They now have the alcohol behind glass also.

The trusting nature seems to not match reality.