by sitting on 0-days for their partners to use at will. That's not to say all of these exploits were such, but I bet many were (especially the bitlocker one).

Because only positive unintended consequences for drugs are possible!

DJGPP was important to me years back, as a demonstration of capability of GNU tools for embedded systems development. Thank you!

42, in all trials

Nothing new, this California case from 1973 is memorable: Geiler

It greases up the school to prison pipeline, that's for sure

Fiber optic installation is already being mechanized: Drone fiber festoons

"It is still the human in control that decides to say "good enough" that makes it slop. "

They could iterate on it a hundred times, it'l be in-key but it still won't be good. Being perfect was never what made music good.

80 km pluggable optical modules have been commonplace for 8+ years. POTS "aggregators" (digital loop carrier equipment) originally worked over T1 lines (24 line TDM on one copper pair in each direction, electrical repeaters also supported), were often retrofitted with fiber mux backhaul, and by around 1992 integrated the fiber backhaul function and served larger line counts.

Show me the fiber, at my 38 year old location, not at some conveniently greenfield site, and I'll believe it.

Lawyers make poor and ethically questionable gum. I prefer plant derived and microbial gums: dextrin, British gum (not made of British people), guar, xanthan, modified cellulose, gum Arabic. My copy of "Handbook of Water Soluble Gums and Resins", does not have an article on lawyers.

This is the era of geeks bearing grifts.

In the '70s-80s in the Los Angeles aerospace realm, it was common for aerospace companies to hire recent BS graduates, then support them for an MS. Consider the specialized and deep problem spaces of control systems, materials, RF devices, RF propagation, error control coding, modulation, structural dynamics, fluid dynamics, ...

I disagree that it should be up to every individual to squint at a number on some packaging every time, and even wasting some water on dirty packaging just to be sure. The misunderstanding is not a passive reception on the consumer's part, it is an action on the part of plastic companies to make the consumer feel that the weight of plastic pollution is actually their fault, even though they had no part in choosing to use it. Case in poiint, the famous "crying indian" ad.

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."