Without regard to the rest of your comment - US universities, and specifically California schools (like Berkeley) go out of their way to take foreign students before US kids because tuition is so much higher for them. Follow the money. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...

"It will also mark the end of the one-year free Windows 10 update offer" So, now they'll bill you after forcing the upgrade?

I think Sean Connery actually owns that particular pronunciation...

This is crap. ISIL, or whomever, "hacks" a site and discloses information on 800 americans - not worthy of an investigation. But if an American security researcher did it they would do hard time...

I 'bout spit out my drink... I hope this isn't a whoosh, but I think that makes it the Alabama of the Mid-West.

Sumdumass rightfully calls out what from this day forward will be known as "the straw-penis" argument!

If you are really going to abandon a (digital) space (like myspace), replace the password with something randomly generated and as long as the site will allow before nuking your profile...

For a federal judge to hit up Facebook after the "FBI Wants to Exempt Its Massive Biometric Database from Some Federal Privacy Rules" http://www.nextgov.com/emergin...

I, too, am looking towards a future without fossil fuels and the problems and associated healthcare costs. But realize that when we do, and oil companies lose their economies of scale - that lubricant in the wind turbine and the one in the machine that makes PVs is going to be exponentially more expensive. As is your parent's IV tubing when they need medical care. The non-zero sum game cuts both ways. And that is OK, just don't overlook that.

Never thought I would get to say that on /.! I work in a hospital and set up PCs for Cath-lab, surgical anesthesia monitors and stuff all the time. As far as this goes the hospital usually just buy the seats (or whatever) for the software and you install it. All the software like this comes with explicit and unambiguous instructions for directory and file type exclusions. Right or wrong, the software will run fine if this is done correctly - it will crash if it is not. First, all the posters are right, windows is crap and shouldn't be used. But it is chicken and egg - the hospitals buy it because that is what all the vendors write their apps for, and the vendors code for Windows because that is what hospitals buy. I am stuck with it. There are a few vendors that run Linux end-to-end, but it is rare.

Never use your money to save a company you don't have an investment stake in. Companies that are so myopic as to have those sorts of issues will NEVER praise you for saving the day; the fact is they will most likely fire you for profiteering. Never, ever, work for a place like this. No good will ever come of it. My director says the same thing. I use my personal accounts for my convenience - that is all. on the rare occasion I use a personal account to get something, I am asked why - and I tell him I wanted it NEXT DAY. If the system ever goes down due to Company planning it is the Companies problem. Find a boss that backs you on that and get behind them - they will likely look out for you in many other ways.

Who the hell has to ask their boss what they should do? I am told what to do in the course of my work. If it is not immoral I do it. If I don't like it I can work elsewhere. I sure as shit don't need corporate input about politics or anything else in my private life.

https://www.arclightcinemas.co... Reserved seating, no cell phones - period.

For almost everything I can think of, a home loan, Insurance, you have to prove you're up to it first. I don't just mean health insurance; if I buy a car, my insurance has to see it or receive pictures to validate the condition to make sure I am not buying a wreck and asking the insurance to fix it. I am not saying forgiving the debt is inappropriate. But if it is going to be a standard practice I want to be indemnified as much as possible by before the loan is made having the students certified as not disabled and unlikely to become so. Again, not necessarily against it but everything needs balance. Without this it is a gift not a loan. Maybe also OK, but we need to be honest about what is being done.