PUST - Personal Universal Standard Time.
Letâ(TM)s just add GPS coordinates both longitude and latitude to the equation as well, so no matter where you are 12:00pm always has the sun direct over head.
Fun fact, with PUST the Extreme north and south get to experience only 12 hours (equal to 3 month equator time) during winter ðY"

Realistically is the USA any better than China?
As an EU citizen I think theyâ(TM)re as bad as each other...

But at least GDPR is a good thing for the most part.
Some one needs to do the comparison, and workout which one is better.

Thanks EU.
Now just change a couple of things ooo donâ(TM)t forget cloud act so the government can do what it wants, need to put it somewhere in there.
Ok, done.
5min not bad... how much do I book for my work...

For Europeans at least this should change somewhat for the better next year with the GDPR being enforced.
Especially given the penalties for breaches!

Ah, what I meant was that; love the job, but work/life balance was no good, cost of living was far more expensive, and career opportunities were slim.

Move = Australia -> Germany

Agreed!
I moved half way around the globe, took half my original salary because I wanted other things than money. I'm still doing the same job, but wanted more experiences out of life, than that of pigeonholing myself into the same lifestyle and grind as everyone.
The bonus is that it's also good for my career!

It took a lot of guts to get off my ... and do it, but I haven't looked back.

How do you know what you like straight out of high school? I'd guess that less than 5% of young adults have any clue.
I'm lucky to have just fallen into positions, which at the very least interests me, and gives me job satisfaction, but I think I'm in the minority.

I think you're better off not worrying about a degree until later in life.

If he feeds back into the Grid... you're welcome!

What's the flow on effect up the food chain both for the virus and the lack of mosquitoes?

All I can picture are 2 different cases in Australia where scientist thought they knew best...
Introduced Species - Cane Toads
Introduced Virus - myxomatosis - for rabbit control
Both failed miserably.

Good luck Florida!
I'm not a tree hugger by any means, but it seems the scientists never consider the far reach repercussions of this type of exercise, and often they seem to cause more bad than good...

So true, education is the key, move forward or don't complain about redundant old functionality with security holes everywhere. It gets to the point where silicon just won't fix your leaky pipe.

Though;
Custom software should always be being redeveloped etc, if it hasn't changed in a long time, then it's probably time to rethink it's purpose and efficiency. Plus specific to IE, IE "should be able to" handle all web comms since the dawn of time. (maybe if Microsoft had more resources this might be better)
Backwards compatibility for hardware this is a tough one. Maybe it can only be solved by Microsoft providing some type of redundant API's for the ancient gear (maybe as like a non-standard package update).
Basically like a hardware "sandbox" for the gear. Keeping the bloatware off the core OS.

Seriously?

This is such an antiquated IT Industry philosophy! (if it ain't broke don't fix it).

Thanks to this idea, Microsoft has to spend most of it's resources patching old systems, (which they no longer receive revenue for), making upgrading more expensive.
Granted Microsoft needs to rethink how upgrades can be more efficient and provide a better model, but we could all benefit from a smoother and cheaper upgrade model especially if Microsoft didn't have to keep plugging today's security holes for yesterdays OS/Apps.

How often do you (or the general populous) update you smartphone or tablet, just because there is a new version? or even install a beta/preview version? is it broken, does it need the update?

Don't get me wrong I'm in Tech support, and I know the grind of change in both the App and OS development side is tough. But even for the apps I support, it makes me angry when someone requests a fix for an old version even though there's a new version. It takes time away from the development resource to fix a non-issue.

Anyway rant over!

The reality is that it the local polluters (primarily energy companies, but also manufacturing and agriculture) pushed the price onto consumers, and exporters suffered from either less profit or higher commodity pricing (leading to less gross exports) because there was no international transfer rate. The government provided the all of these industries with subsidies, offsetting the actual carbon price anyway (and this wasn't pushed onto local consumers anyway, so in fact had higher profits).

All they need to do is cut the billions of dollars they spend on polluter's subsidies and transfer it to renewables. Such a simple task/idea, but they don't have the guts to take on the primary industries. (cause they're mostly the key party funders).

Repealing the Carbon Tax was a good thing, but they should have put in the same bill their alternate plan. Instead they failed and currently have no real plan to cut emissions. (politicians always whinge that renewables cost too much but that's only because of the subsidies they provide to the polluters industries)

Bleugh I'm glad I live in germany now, where they (seem) to have one of the better green policies!

Is this just a precursor for implanting signals into a brain (totally scifi), but from my understanding encryption and "packet" injection/hijacking is far easier than decryption... so wouldn't it provide "them" the building blocks to push direct data/memories etc into the brain? Just a thought.

The other thought was this tech in combination with reactionary neural sensory tech (currently available off the shelf) would lead to direct neural interfaces for "their" upcoming Mech's - I prefer that term than the DoD's term.
I don't mean by a plug, I mean direct signal connection. So the ability to write a brain API for a Mech...
Being able to have the reactionary neural sensors pick up the correct part of the brain which means turn right, and no other meaning of the word right, along with the the brain and interface "speaking" in the same language, would make for some pretty scary future tech in my opinion.

Quick someone patent the idea of a Brain API !