Malcolm Gladwell did a study of police in America and Europe. It turns out that many Euro cities have much larger police forces that U.S. cities. Their police are less violent and better respected.

He goes on (maybe he was reporting on a book he wrote) that the mayor of Baltimore greatly reduced violent crime, which, before he arrived, was at one of the worst levels in the U.S. He reduced crime by doing two things: expanding the police force and adding more ancillary services. One anecdote he related was that someone was murdered on the street. He sent is people to visit the family and they were able to talk the family out of seeking revenge through explaining the bad things revenge brings and convincing them the police were on the case.

His basic message is that U.S. cities are underpoliced and the police feel overwhelmed. Personally, I attribute this to the "law and order" pols who seem to revel in conjuring up hobgobblins and bleating on how beating the fear of God or the Love of Jesus Christ into criminals would solve the problem. So they underfund the police and taut that as being "tough on crime" and "fiscally conservative." They are lying and they know it, but Americans insist on believing these snake oil salesmen every election day.

The police, in general, are ordinary people asked to extraordinary things with few resources because the pols have convinced people this is good for them.

Birds are pretty smart, full stop. They're the only group that has a method of creating and using their own hooked tools (Caledonian Crow) other than humans.
They are excellent problem solvers overall. Given their size relative to comparative intellects (Crows are comparable in intellect to monkeys and gorillas), they're absolute marvels.

Bingo, this is just another attempt by el Bunko to use tax payers' money to inflate his ego. And if people die because that moron pushed NASA too fast, he'll think the dead people owed him for the privilege of dying.

Yeah, and Trump is promising to wrap up the war immediately after the upcoming elections.

I've always been a big fan of space exploration, but for a country that can't afford its lifestyle a moon base doesn't sound very important priority.

(Or maybe I should have said "isn't willing to pay for" its lifestyle.)

My cranky post was about a Samsung. I didn't mention the brand because I assumed their all that way.

I bought my first-ever "smart" TV this year, and the interface is horrible. The hardware is fine, but everything else is designed for people pushing stuff, rather than for a user.

IT/InfoSec doesn't do it because they like it. They do it because
1. It is a best practice these days.
2. It is required by corporate polices and procedures.
3. It is required for external compliance (cybersecurity insurance, PCI, etc.)

The few ruin things for the many.

I thought the Yandex attacks had shut down all the russian bots.

Then FISA could give Putin a peace prize!

Oh, fluffernutter.

ICE is only convenient because of a hundred years of infrastructure build-out. But you think having an electrician spend two hours running a 50 amp line from your panel to the side of your house, which takes a few hours, is somehow an insurmountable block.

"Nice horseless carriage, Mr. Ford, but can you produce enough to switch *all* transportation to it? As of today, call for horseless only transportation means that personal vehicle ownership becomes impossible. To put it differently, you can drive your horseless carriage only because other people drive horses."

US male life expectancy is 76.5 years. If I tell you every year that you're probably going to die by the time you're seventy-seven, and you hit seventy-eight, do you now believe you're immortal?

Wow, BIND, though? Do a quick search on "history of BIND vulnerabilities." Sure, people run all these tests on it now, and in the past, and the history has been there's been a lot of causes of concern.

Yeah, that's pretty old-fashioned. In my experience, it's barely done now. Kinda like how nobody writes JavaScript like it's Pascal anymore.

Bioware may well be a shadow of its former self, but at the end of the day, love or hate what they produced in their latter days, it's all people that worked every day to do their best to bring about what management and the employed script writers specified.
There are many posts about graphics being superb, but gameplay lacking. That's a decision by game designers, rather than all the team, many of who are lumbered with knowing it could be better but constrained to produce what the spec and story said.

I feel for the team, each of who would be trying to make a living, and hope that some of the other studios may be able to wrangle increasing head count to absorb some of the EA fallout. Or that some kickstarter will be set up by the now unemployed members to rebuild some of what the old Bioware (and others) were once known for.

Good luck out there, ex EA employees. We'll be cheering you on for a path back to stability!