Blind spot monitoring is so useless if you know how to adjust your mirrors. Every rental car I've driven that's had a BLIS system didn't tell me anything the mirrors couldn't tell me faster. Then again, I adjust my mirrors on anything I drive to where I don't see the side of the vehicle in them, I had to learn that trick on my own. They didn't teach that in driver's education.

Do you understand how services on the internet work and how access to the internet in general happens? You can't "attach" servers to another's network for free. What you're talking about is peering which the backbone providers offer freely to each-other in order for there to be a functional internet. Netflix can and does pay to attach CDNs directly to the networks of retail providers like Comcast and Charter.

This exact thing happened to the team developing Factorio. They no longer give away review keys to anyone.

My previous one wasn't quite as bad as that. However, he felt he was the SME on everything. Not just IT, the entire universe. He was better than you and he knew this because he wasn't you. He constantly spoke about others behind their back, lamented women taking temp disability under doctor's orders while pregnant. He said the biggest problem was the users hated IT... but by the time I left I knew that IT was hated not because of being the rules police and process police, but that the IT director was a toolbox.

You are incorrect. The only privately owned and operated airport with commercial passenger service in the Untied States is in Branson, Missouri. Private airfields exist but none offer scheduled commercial passenger service.

That isn't surprising for any aircraft with a thrust to weight ratio > 1.

You make light of anti-gambling sentiment, but to some it's as serious as a heart-attack. Anti-gambling in schools was so pants-on-head ridiculous back in the 90's where I grew up; I couldn't bring a board game to school with a regular D6. Shit you not, if it had Arabic or Roman Numerals that was okay because that was a "number cube". But if that fucker had spots to denote the value of the face it was considered "gambling paraphernalia" Didn't matter if the D6 was in a box labeled "MONOPOLY" it'd get confiscated and you'd never get it back.

People misconstrue a historian's inability to explain as an inability to figure things out. Just because history can't say how Roman's made their concrete doesn't mean Chemists can't analyze samples and find ways of recreating and improving upon their recipe. Just like the myth that ancient Mesopotamian cultures couldn't take on the massive construction projects they did, it was more their own ethnic bias thinking that those cultures were primitive screwheads compared to modern European cultures.

Not inferior enough to justify NIVIDIA's price premium for G-sync. At least not to my eyes.

Bricklayers have been told machines are coming for their jobs for decades and it has yet to happen in spite of some REALLY good attempts at mechanizing the task.

Seriously, exactly what you said. I'm sick and tired of being accused of defending pedophiles when I raise constitutional objections to certain Law Enforcement actions. I want criminals brought to justice, not released because of a technicality, or law enforcement got lazy and couldn't follow the law. I also want my rights protected. The desire to effectively prosecute criminals and protect constitutional rights are not mutually exclusive. P.S. In more polite company I sometimes refer to the FBI as the Feckless Bunch of Idiots.

Given Geek Squad's past history of technicians scouring drives for customer nude photos... it doesn't surprise me that there might still be a bit of that culture lingering and techs going well beyond the purview of what is necessary to retrieve data. I never did that when I was doing data retrievals freelance. I just cared about finding as many files as I could even with un-delete utilities. The only thing that would give me reason to call Law Enforcement would be file names and directories at which point I stop what I'm doing and leave it to LEOs to handle.

Did you have the Bose active noise-canceling headset? I have a 3M Peltor passive set of muffs for the range, but they don't completely eliminate the airplane noise like my QC25's do. Plus I can still hear safety announcements on the plane. The $300 price tag for them is $10 for the audio playback and $290 for the active noise cancellation. I've also found the noise cancellation to be rather good when working in a server room. Really saves me from hearing the white-noise of fans for the rest of the day.

1) G-suite with domain required. There's no way to subscribe to this as an add-on to existing infrastructure, which is where Slack thrives currently. 2) No ability to invite people outside your org. Again, Slack has Google beat here. You can invite (sub)contractors to your Slack instance without having to create internal credentials for them. Mind you, I hate using these chat apps for work. However, as someone that's had to manage Slack for an organization it's still the bees knees for teams that incorporate it.

A friend of mine was a locksmith until he passed away. His license was just a registration so he could gain access to databases so he could reproduce vehicle keys without an original. When I worked at a Hardware store I cut keys and re-keyed household locks we sold without a locksmith license.