An editable blockchain is not a blockchain.

Good thing that won't happen to your Fisher Paykel brand. They don't even get hot enough to dry anything!

Oh, you want a BIG explosion...

In a fit of irony, they are the only Samsung product that doesn't... ;)

Since he just bought it, I'm curious to see if it is an old, returned phone that somebody shipped to China to alter and resell. Hopefully the Samsung rep was at least allowed to get the serial number.

Early voting has already started in some places, if you want to swing a vote it helps to act before the voting is done.

Anyone that upgrades to VOIP will need a 1Gbps network, preferably with CAT6; CAT5e is okay but CAT6 really enables it.

It's a matter of the frequency tolerance and ability for the cable to carry the requisite signals. CAT5 doesn't have the tolerance for 1GBps transmission while CAT5e does, but CAT6 and CAT7 do even better as the signal tolerances are significantly improved and able to push higher frequencies.

Most likely, when they say that you don't need to tear out the cables, they're referring to CAT6 cable installations. It you have CAT5 you'll definitely need to upgrade the cable; you will *likely* need to upgrade if you only have CAT5e. Nearly everyone has CAT5e at minimum and many have been upgrading already to CAT6; so if they can pull the 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps on CAT6 then most everyone will be quite happy that the investment they just did (in the last 5 years) to handle 1Gbps will be easily upgradeable to the new standard with just router and NIC changes - much like the 100Mbps to 1Gbps switch was with CAT5e installations.

Insist that because future projects "may" require a security clearance and that the company wants flexibility to move people around, all applicants must be able to pass the "initial gate-keeper" steps of getting a security clearance, including "must be a US citizen or demonstrate ability to get a security clearance despite not being a US citizen."

This will weed out most people who were neither born here nor have been here long enough to get citizenship, including disproportionate numbers of people of Asian descent.

Is this legal? Very likely. Is it slimey? Assuming it's a cover for discrimination and you really aren't going to need a workforce where everyone can get a security clearance in short order, yes.

You are almost certainly paying over $100 a year for electricity for a desktop PC as a server.

In California, it's almost $50 a month for a 380W server. I switched to an old 14W netbook with an SSD and a 4TB drive hanging off the USB 2 port, which acts as a file server just as well. It can't transcode, but I store everything in MP4 anyway. I turned off the Wifi and Bluetooth radios and saved another 4W.

Or you could just set up the feature that streams across the internet. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200484543-Enabling-Remote-Access-for-a-Server. And you don't even need to pay for Plex, since that feature is available in the free version.

This is so true. I'm a cord-cutter and my internet went down on Saturday and I watched a show on Plex specifically BECAUSE it's over my network.

I use a netbook for my server you insensitive clod.

You clearly don't have the same electric company that I have...