I've never heard of Waze or any other system designed to defeat camera systems. And it's been my habit, for most of my life now, to push that "10 MPH over the limit" line. But this seems fair, now that I'm older and more moderate in my driving habits. Still, I have to wonder if all the tricks I used Back In The Day with my motorcycles (pigdog Norton 750 Atlas, and then my beloved BMW R75-5) to defeat radar (careful use of lanes, using other vehicles to block my much smaller radar signature would still work at all :-)

I never thought to look it up before, since I've been running World of Warcraft on my trusty old Win10 for decades now. But this got me curious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

Well, look like no problems. I'm sure there's a decent web browser available, and if I could get all my saved Outlook email transferred over ... interesting, very interesting.

Yeah, there may have been some nutjobbery as you say ... but I still miss all the Chuck Norris references in World of Warcraft's "Crossroads Chat", which had a certain fame of its own back in the early days. So long, Chuck: maybe on the other side.

Well, I know where I'm NOT buying my next desktop!

I had no idea they were recycling fiber optic cables like that! I remember seeing an underseas cable dragged up into the jungle down in Panama when I was working in the Army Jungle School at Fort Sherman. It was at Devil's Beach, where our student companies would regularly take a break, and the big black cable (I can't remember, maybe 3 or 4 inches in diameter?) was just lying there in the jungle. You could see its construction on the end visible there. I always have regretted not bringing a hacksaw there one day and hacking off a foot or two just as one hell of a souvenir!

I hope they sue his ass off for stealing even the _thought_ of such an image.

Ditto on the several purported Rachel Maddow channels I've been viewing lately. And the channels on that out-of-system "comet" over the past several months. Tipoffs: lip synching may be good, random head movements, etc. But the hand and arm movements are identical, repetitive. And the way they spell out millions of dollars as "digit dollarsign millions".

Very disappointing.

I somehow ended up with two Prime memberships (I suspect one belonging to my deceased wife). I got tired of paying for both of them, went online, cancelled one of them. No confusion, no problems, no nagging "are you sure?" stuff. I consider this a non-issue.

I am so pleased to read that perl is regaining its popularity again! I did some _serious_ hacks in perl back in The Day. I don't program any more, but I think some of my best (and certainly quickest and most portable) work was in perl.

Or if you must use fixed wing (for range, etc.), why not just hang the blades on the outside of the fuselage? Or use a C-130 or C-141 or C-5A or C-17 or whatever, leave the rear ramp open, and just let the lighter tip end of the blade hang out the back?

True, that. Now if there were only a Japanese form of suicide for AIs :-(

https://mai-ko.com/travel/japa...

Now, now: that's kind of harsh.

I always knew Microsoft was kind of evil, but I still regret not selling everything when I retired from the Army in '84 and moving to Washington, to try for a job in Microsoft. I was a pretty good programmer back then, could've impressed them somehow or another.

The farther away they can get from the DC swamp, the better off they'll be.

Besides, there should be plenty of room left at Fort Meade. I got to visit the big bronze mirrored cube one time (long long ago) to explain to the crippies my source code for an encryption file/communication program they were somehow interested in. Very intimidating, to say the least (since I wasn't really a crippie myself, and they had to explain the questions they asked as much as I had to explain the code (8086 assembly language and Pascal). It was kind of fun, once I realized these were actually real humans ... and one of them was kind enough to mention "Wow, this is a real Cray-buster!" What an honor!

One might wonder why she signed that non-disparagement agreement in the first place? She could've just walked away, right? Of course that might've affected the publishing and/or distribution.

I've never signed a non-disclosure agreement in my life (not quite the same as a non-disparagement agreement, true) that I didn't carefully and suspiciously rewrite, ensuring I wasn't giving away the entire farm. Curiously, I never had an employer who disagreed with my rewrite ... to include the US Army! I guess my work didn't matter so much after all. Or those greedy, crippling conditions they always seemed to have were just boilerplate after all.

Agreed.