In the aviation world there are well-known acronyms just like any industry. The information is being directed at people in that industry. That's no different than people in the tech world using acronyms like SDLC, XDR, RDBMS, and so many more. Everybody knows what those mean if they are relevant to them. As the owner of an aviation technology company I see and use acronyms from aviation and software technology, it's just part of life.

I'm an old C/C++ guy that learned PHP in 2000 to add some features to an internal deployment of Sourceforge. I've wound up writing several of my own PHP frameworks for different application needs. I have always used Doxygen to document all of my code. I also write supplemental pages that show examples of all of the library/framework features. If I wind up having to bring someone else up to speed on the code then I have a complete set of documentation to show them how everything works.

For larger systems I generally wind up also writing a Wiki that is literally a brain dump with every single piece of information that could be relevant. This Wiki includes not only development information, but everything needed to operate, maintain, and troubleshoot the entire system. Part of the reason I do this is to help others understand everything. Another reason I do this is so I don't have to remember every single detail of code I wrote many years ago.

As a matter of fact, there's a /. story just a few before this one talking about a mission that just landed on the moon. No humans, but an actual moon shot. Things didn't go 100% unfortunately.

The title literally says "Personal Cloud Computer". I have run my own SMTP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS and others over the years simply because I could. As a personal infrastructure I didn't give a rat's about massively parallel, redundant, 99.999% uptime, or any of the other 'advantages' of a cloud environment. I wanted the experience of knowing how things worked for myself rather than be dependent on another company.

For non-personal requirements, the cloud can quite often fit the bill very nicely. I own a telecom services company that is 100% cloud based and I could be happier. I have also consulted for relatively large companies and hosted 100% of their systems in the cloud. Why? Because it may be able to provide some advantages. Not that there aren't some disadvantages as well, but the good outweighs the bad.

Going back into a distant piece of career history I was at a large eCommerce company in 2005-2006 that was moving to self-hosted virtualization for efficiency reasons. The work they were doing might happen to be the major cloud vendor today.

Google has always wanted to slurp up data for their own uses. This is just the golden opportunity they have been looking for. I won't be giving them my data warehouses anytime soon.

I would have to agree. I run a couple of significant applications on DO for a several years. I have been pleasantly surprised to see how many times a search for a more challenging technical solution has brought back pages from the DO library. They not only know who their customers are, but they put valuable effort into helping folks succeed as well.

I recently had to do an interpretive reading and chose a portion of the first chapter of "1984" by Orwell. After the reading I drew parallels with the new "convenience" gadgets in homes. A number of people in the audience were shocked by where things are at today. Sadly, there were also some who couldn't have cared less. The second group is the most concerning.

I completely agree with the tablet usage. I have a small farm and work with a lot of heavy equipment that I carry manuals for on my tablet. I also have a plethora of laws to adhere to as well. Having all that information on a tablet when I'm going to be somewhere with zero internet connectivity is indispensable.

Excuse me? You would do well to familiarize yourself with the plight of Italians and Irish who came to the United States. I'm also pretty sure Native Americans such as the Cherokee don't have any African blood either. My ancestors were Irish and Cherokee and I find your post stunningly uninformed.

Exactly! This isn't a negotiation on any kind of science, this is pure deal-making which Mr. Trump is quite capable at. As for the science advisors, if you keep doing the same thing expecting a different result...

Ok, all that sounds really nice and altruistic. Does that mean Bill Gates will be dependent on the same concept of income/salary as the rest of the unwashed masses? If not, he can take his bright ideas back where they came from.

Insightful? Self-absorbed perhaps. And here comes the slap of reality... They were investigating the theft of 300 iPhones with a retail value over $300,000, probably a few dollars more than your stolen bicycle. People who would pull of this large of a theft are generally bigger fish in the local crime scene, not the meth head that stole your bicycle. But then again, I guess you had to take advantage of a chance to take a swipe at the "large corporations profits" [sic]. You'll be in your folks' basement until you realize that it's probably going to be corporations that will pay your salary some day.

If you've talked to anyone from the federal government recently, say like the IRS, you've thought you might have been talking to a robot. Now it's confirmed. I think they've been using the really stupid ones to send to the Congressional hearings on things like the IRS and Benghazi.

Ok, that should have been "the biggest geeks around were the HAM operators"

I'm not exactly saying I'm old enough to remember this, but it used to be that the biggest geeks around were the biggest geeks around. Rather than 0's and 1's, you had to say everything through dot (.) and dash (-). Personally, I could never keep all 26 letters straight so I never got a license. Plus, I grew up after the dark ages. We had CB radios. On a good day we could shoot skip as far as some HAM operators, but didn't have as many rules. 10-7.