The statement was "worst case scenario." I replied with an actual pretty bad result, not a judgment on the practice. And of course the worst case scenario would be: breaks down disease barriers between species predicating an extinction event.

Read more critically.

> Worst case, the person dies.

Worst case, you introduce a change that gets into the gene pool that makes us more vulnerable to a common disease, shortens lifespan, increases infant mortality, etc. With genetics, the results could be terribly subtle or take decades to reveal themselves.

I noticed late February that prices on a couple different brands of NVMe SSDs had dropped around the same time, and have stayed a little lower since.

Prices are finally starting to move. I'll snag one of those 960s or Samsung 961s if they go a little lower. My SATA SSD is tolerable at current prices.

I also strongly prefer ASCII emoticons. The graphic ones aren't consistent across platforms, and often aren't readable enough on phone screens (even not counting that texting them from Android to iPhone or back tends to replace them with different ones with a similar theme or else ??'s.)

Responding to top comment to say, the writer is obviously a satirist and this "article" should never have been submitted. Read the writer's other work.

To open source something you

1) need to get it to a state where it compiles with modern, available toolsets
2) have to unlink it from any third party libraries you had to license (what stops most things)
3) remove any third party assets you had to license, like sounds, graphics
4) open your old customers to exploits people can glean from reading the source, which is bad PR

All of which requires a budget with no business case and not even a tax-deductible dollar amount associated with it.

Enterprises use backup power and power conditioning.

Adobe will never open source it in a million years. It's the most insecure piece of trash and is being EOL'd because new vulnerabilities keep showing up and Adobe isn't making enough money off of it anymore to warrant the team of coders to try to keep up with all the security issues.

I worked with one Indian in my time as a network engineer, and he was a fraud. He lied extensively on his resume and could do very little of what he claimed.

But, take that with a huge grain of salt for the singular data point it is.

Something similar happened to me in college 20 years ago. I reported that they had an insecure network mount, and they gave me a written warning that went on my record, and almost banned me from the computer services entirely -- which would have made writing papers and doing research impossible since I didn't have them at home.

This is why people aren't nice to each other.

Cisco Advanced Malware Protection is their "hash transmitted/received files, compare with hashes of known malware" which has its own uses in this sort of environment.

We may have had mutant humans in the past who were effectively "immortal" but they were primitives who died in childbirth or hunting mammoths or they were peasants who starved to death because of the increased calorie requirements. Sad to imagine.

Yes, I still use RSS every day. I initially started using RSS as a way to manage my favorite webcomics. For this purpose, it is still a killer application.

Do you find yourself checking your favorite comic sites every day, or even multiple times a day? With RSS, I don't have to. I add the site feed to FeedDemon in my Comics folder, and I can easily see when a new comic is posted. The only problem is when the site changes their software around, the RSS URL can change and you just stop receiving updates until you fix it.

This works for a lot of things. I use it for low-traffic Reddit subs that I want to see 100% of the posts for without having to visit them individually. Obviously, I use it to monitor news posts for people, games, and projects I follow. I know when updates and patches to games roll out without having to visit the site every day. I have even subscribed to certain Twitter personalities that don't post very frequently.

Another killer application of RSS is deal feeds. I subscribe to a handful of sites like Hot Deals Club, BensBargains, Dealcatcher, etc. I don't read them directly -- I use a feature of FeedDemon called Watches. I can set up keyword triggers and be notified when I receive a feed update with that keyword(s).

Let's say I'm shopping for a new SSD. I create a new watch called "SSD" and I put "SSD" as the keyword. Every time I get a hit, it shows up in my watches under that heading. I basically get informed of any sales on SSDs anywhere. I can even limit the folder so I only get hits from my deal feeds. Otherwise, I just ignore the deal feeds folder and just mark them read every time I refresh my feeds.

FeedDemon literally saves me hours a day I used to spend just going through my bookmarks folder. It also saves me money when I'm shopping for something that I don't need right away.

There's too much going on these days to personally keep up with it all without wasting a significant amount of time browsing and skimming every day. I think Agents are going to be big once they really get going. Alexa and Siri and Cortana are the "rock on a stick" version of real Agents. Once they mature, we'll be better able to monitor the things we're interested in and get summaries of new topics instead of the same shit repeated over and over at every site.

The newer GPSs are getting better about voice assistance, before they totally vanish from the market. Also, they're not telling Google/Amazon/Apple everything you're saying at home (yeah, I know, theoretically they don't usually do that) or letting TV commercials order bags of dogfood sent to you (really big bags, because Alexa knows it was a Labrador Retriever barking.)

Trade shows used to raffle off iPads and such. Now it's mostly Amazon Echo variants, which I actively don't want in my house, as opposed to drones, which I'm not interested in but not annoyed by.

A couple of months ago I'd gotten sufficiently fed up with Android that, when my Android tablet decided to reset itself again, a week or so before I was going on a trip, at the same time that Fry's had an Ematic Win10 tablet on sale, that I'd give Windows tablets a chance. The one I bought had 32GB of flash (plus a microSD card slot), and had 15.9GB of that free. I ran Windows Update, which told me that Anniversary Update was available and needed 16GB of free space; turns out that doesn't mean 15.9, nor 16, nor 16 with an empty 64GB SD card - I had to drag&drop enough different things over to the SD card to get about 18-19GB free on the built-in to get the update to run. But once it had enough space it ran cleanly.

The latest outrage from MS is that the email account I registered it with had the form "username+tag@domain.com", and MS has decided that to protect me from losing access to the account if I forget the password, they need to VERIFY that by sending it an email, which never arrives because they're confused by the "+tag" in the name field, so when I tried to add a different email by answering a bunch of bogus security questions with the same answers as last time, they sent the "VERIFICATION" email to the new address, I clicked on it, and the first thing it does is demand that I re-verify it by having them send a code to the old address. I have not given them a phone number to call, since I have no interest in giving them my real information; I'm tempted to borrow a burner for that, or see if they can send the code by audio to a VOIP system or something.

(That's not even counting that Windows 10 tablet mode is pretty lame, and works much better with a keyboard, and the nice ergonomically designed keyboard that came with the tablet died after about a month, but that's more a symptom of what you get for $70 on sale.)