Wow, they've been very busy recently! The machines we have in our labs were included there as of a few days ago. Wonderful!

I mean, aren't there plenty of sites which offer pretty much the same thing?

It's nice that Dell is financially supporting this, but - I wish they'd support it for more machines. Last time I checked, it appeared Dell only supported this for a single model out of their entire line.

If "we" are doing the latter, than "we" are being stupid. We need to keep training our users to be skeptical - they should always first ask "does this pass the smell test?" because no technology is perfect.

So basically this is just admin laziness, as in they don't want to manage a separate DKIM / SPF setup for their customers versus their actual employees?

Someone in the Mastodon thread linked from TFS was claiming that Google and Apple basically doing that - which is mind-blowingly stupid, if true. I'm actually a bit skeptical (but feeling too lazy ATM to dig into it right now).

One of our grad students got burned by this - fake emails purportedly coming from his faculty advisor.

I don't get how people fall for it, though... in this case, the faux professor told the student first to go buy a few hundred dollars in gift cards, then to send him the gift card numbers and the confirmation codes (the ones you have to scratch off to access). I mean, why would you think your professor would ask you to do these things?

Electric bikes get far better range per watt. I can get 45 miles on a 500Wh battery without pedal assist, putting my consumption at ~12Wh per mile.

Like this is so basic of a thought exercise that anyone with a brain (or anyone that owns an e-bike) can see this story is utter bullshit.

Here's Seattle's bell schedule, for example:

https://www.seattleschools.org...

In every school district I'm familiar with, the junior high schools and high schools both start AND end one hour earlier than the elementary schools do. And the stated reason is specifically to cut down on transportation costs.

If people really cared about the kids above all, they wouldn't make the junior high and high school students go in so early - they'd raise taxes on themselves to buy more busses and pay for more drivers so that the schools all start and end at the same time.

Streelights aren't useful for my late-night summer barbeques, dammit!

(I just want the back-and-forth to end, I'm close enough to retirement that I don't really care all that much about this anymore)

... what the Labor Department calls the information industry, which includes employment of software developers and other tech workers. ... which [also[ includes media and entertainment.

The fact that, for this discussion, they decided to explicitly include "media and entertainment" makes it pretty obvious any increase in hiring is only in that group. We've all seen the copious amount of stories documenting this. Actual tech workers - especially new graduates - are having a hard time finding jobs. I also see and hear about this frequently in discussions with the students in our department.

No, the good feelings (a segment of the base liked it initially) have come to an end. The illegal Trump attack ("war" is something congress authorizes -- this is an illegal attack and should be named as such) won't end for a long, long time. Iran has no reason to back down, as it gives the rulers more power, not less.

Nah, that's just the usual noise of their venal incompetence. There's stories about their counter-productive screw-ups all the time. I am not saying the article above isn't right or the issue isn't important, but Trump thinks a phone is just a product/object. it's something made by little people -- he doesn't understand computer security or anything algorithmic.

My vote here is on how he created a slush fund to push $1.776 billion of tax-payer dollars to his buddies. There's a lot of chatter about how this is MAJOR BAD.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/p...
https://fitzpatrick.house.gov/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

etc.

JPL has been run by CalTech for 90 years because it's the CalTech rocketry club founded in 1936. Its services are some of the most productive investments of the US federal government.

You're looking at this as basic MIC M&A. If they wanted to cut the budget or be more efficient they could just rewrite the contract as they always do at renewal. This is a theft of expertise.