I think that's why mine never failed, I was the only user of my drive and I never shared disks with anyone, so my disks never left my desk. They were either on the shelf or in the drive.

Require all accounts for minors to submit report-data to legal guardians, at least as far as contacts and timestamps for contact, including geolocation data. Possibly restrict the ability of accounts of minors to have contact of accounts of adults without parental consent. Actually use their dataset to look for requests for friends or other contact where there's not a strong reason for that subject person to be contacting that minor, and where that subject person likewise has connections or a history of connections to others where there's no otherwise-plausible reason, and flag those for human review.

This might not catch/stop all new perpetrators but it would at least allow existing patterns of behavior/exploitation to be uncovered. Then report those human-reviewed patterns to federal law enforcement.

They already have these systems in place to make friend-recommendations based on when two accounts share strong correlation, it should not be difficult to use them to compare friend-requests where there's extremely weak correlation, basically the inverse of what they're currently doing..

Based on the lax licensing and demonstrated performances I was under the impression that VW/Audi drivers were already creative commons.

It worked the last time I used it.

It's an internal SCSI model, I suspect that helped prolong its life since it was less subject to casual jostling/shock compared to iomega's external products.

Damn thing set me back $400. To a poor college student that was a lot of money. Now I look at my 256GB memory card for my DSLR and I wonder why I bother keeping the Jaz2.

Lowest I ever put Linux on was a Macintosh Centris 660AV, a 25MHz 68040. I think I had an 8MB SIMM in addition to the 4MB soldered on for a whopping 12MB, but it possibly has a 16MB SIMM and 4MB on board for 20MB. Can't remember now.

16.9 bogomips if I remember the output of /proc/cpuinfo correctly.

At the time I did this I was rocking a 350MHz AMD K6-2, probably with something like 512MB RAM. Eventually I upgraded that AMD machine to 1.5GB RAM, there's a market sweet-spot where RAM is old enough that demand drops, but where existing stocks haven't run out to make it scarce again. That AMD machine ran circles around my friends' PCs even with processors ostensibly almost three times the speed, because processor speed doesn't mean anything when you're constantly swapping to disk.

..."but what f I need that RAM?"

I did have Linux on a system with 8MB RAM, way back in the mid-nineties, but even having been in the situation I could accept the resource loss.

Now if only I could bear to part with my 2GB iomega Jaz drive...

The serial port problem is because counterfeit chips reliant on the original software entered the supply chain. Those counterfeits had some kind of way to be identified and the driver was updated to not function with the counterfeits. If you have the genuine FTDI chips then you're fine.

I've professionally supported Windows since version 3.1. As far as I'm concerned, there have been no UI improvements (ie, actual usability improvements) of any serious advantage since Windows 2000, and after Windows 7 it's gotten worse.

There are now two competing UI models, the classic one and the Metro one. Neither model contains all of the controls to set/configure/use the full suite of the OS. One cannot remain wholly in a classic mode or wholly in a Metro mode to do everything. This is very awkward when trying to support the OS and helping end-users with their own PCs when they are the ones interacting with the device.

Perhaps Microsoft made some under-the-hood improvements since Windows 7, but I'll be damned if I can find them. I had a Windows 7 VM running on my Linux box well past the introduction of Windows 10 because it just worked, finally having to retire it when new AD versions dropped support.

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I wouldn't think they'd need a warrant for his fingerprints, it sounds like the possible ID of a human being tied to that account and subsequent investigation of that human being was enough.

The fingerprints in this case led to unmasking, not proof at a scene of a crime.

...we need mandated software support for a certain period of time past last-sale.

Perfectly functonal devices are rendered unusable because manufacturers refuse to maintain the software on the devices they sell. We need manufacturers to be required to provide software updates and support for the duration of a reasonable physical life-expectancy of the device. From my point of view, for a cell phone that period should be something like five years after date of end-of-sale.

But part of the point of something like what this Australian company proposes would allow people that can't charge at-home to charge an electric car and use it similarly to how they use their existing gas-powered cars.

What I would envision, government subsidies allow new service stations to be built or old ones retrofitted near high voltage transmission lines initially, within urban areas and along interstates. This might still mean that EV drivers have to spend time hunting-down service stations, but it would be preferable to the situation now, probably not much different than someone with a Costco membership trying to exclusively use Costco fuel pumps.

If all other things are equal, if it can charge akin to refueling a gas-powered vehicle at a service station, in only a few minutes, that would be a game changer. Being able to recharge in a few minutes instead of a half-hour would mean people could drive it like they do a conventional gas-powered car, and recharging infrastructure built throughout the country could potentially serve more customers in a given amount of time, provided they can handle the current-draw.

Depends on what the ramifications of dumping entire stored capacity catastrophically.

If such a discharge is relatively safe given its nature, like it is unlikely to cause explosions, then it might simply be a case of designing a housing for the battery that ensures that it fails-safe. Something that will shunt in a safe fashion after breakers for the rest of the electrical system are tripped.

Yeah, I was thinking bookkeeping and other 'wihte collar' occupations come to mind, especially those with some kinds of regular office hours. Also don't forget people that had the job-title "computer" who manually or with the assistance of mechanical calculators did rote math for engineering projects. And draftsmen who created and maintained blueprints, etc.

My own profession vacillates between sitting at a console for extended periods of time and having to do physical tasks like working with telecommunications equipment. Over the last few weeks I've even had the joy of having to go do telecom fiber infrastructure documentation in anticipation of a new project, which has meant going out with a 2' metal hook and prying concrete lids off of in-ground vaults to inspect fiber cables and splice caes. I can say with conviction that the labor of prying up 20" by 40" concrete lids capable of supporting 20,000lb is a lot harder on me than sitting at my computer working on routers and switches.