Steganography

Even "LED technology" is a con -- it's still an LCD panel (the LED is just the backlight).

I had to stop using iTunes for my iPhone because my MacBook was too old to be upgraded to the required version of MacOS and iTunes. It was fine and I didn't miss using iTunes for a long time. I even restored the contents from iCloud after my phone was replaced due to a swollen battery.

That was until I found out that it didn't restore my music purchases correctly -- in a number of cases, it restored the wrong song from the same album. I ended up transferring my iTunes library from the old MacBook to a new one, and then syncing from there.

Citibank has this, too -- they call it a Virtual Account Number. I use it with almost all online transactions. Amazon is a little tricky, though, because it uses multiple merchant names and the virtual card is tied to the merchant name. Since it's hard to predict which merchant will be used, I usually just generate a new number each time.

That's a different case involving a man in Ohio -- with an S7 Edge, not a Note 7.

Please restore the redundant "comments" link at the bottom of the summary. If I decide after reading the summary that it's worth reading the comments, it's annoying to have to scroll back if the top link has already scrolled past.

I always thought engineering was about finding one of many possible reasonable solutions. There's almost never a One Right Way ("Fast/good/cheap -- pick two." "Perfect is the enemy of Good Enough." ...)

it's going to count at review time, when your colleagues rate you.

What does that make Usenet?

Not that I agree with you, but I recently saw a Tesla with a license plate of: "WWEMD"

Ah, yes. pawl.rpi.edu was where I first encountered X11 in 1989, too, although I was usually running SunTools. Lots of hours spent in "rn", and later, Emacs GNUS.

Yeah, a policeman told me the same thing after I had a break-in: "Get a dog."

What my insurance company does is to send a check for the depreciated value of the stolen items. I would then have up to a year to buy replacements. After showing proof, the insurance company would then send me another check to cover the difference. Makes sense if I choose not to replace any stolen items.

I rsync to an ext2 filesystem on a LUKS (cryptsetup) volume running on an S3-backed virtual device (using s3backer).

I was on a Cathay Pacific flight a couple of years ago when the in-flight entertainment system (video on demand, music, games) got stuck. I told the attendant and he said he would reset it. The screen went blank and then showed what was clearly a Linux console boot sequence (complete with penguin logo).