If you have 100 questions, it's not a serious exam. A question in a serious exam should take more than 5 minutes to answer, and it's not reasonable for an exam to take 8 hours.

VeraCrypt is a particularly strong full-disk encryption, although you don't hear much of companies using it. However, BitLocker security issues keep getting mentioned and it looks like VeraCrypt fixed a number of theirs. However, code quality seems to be listed as unclear on some sites. Not sure how true that actually is though.

BestCrypt is another, but I'm not happy they permit fragile encryption schemes, as those could potentially be used by the software as standard for something important. Being commercial software, that wouldn't be easy to check.

BitLocker seems to be a typical Microsoft failure in terms of what it does, used only because it's Microsoft and that gives CTOs and CFOs someone to blame.

Because the parent(s) have their $100k+ office job and have to continue working when they get home.

The median salary is $51,000, with the median household income being $84,000.

The kid is coddled by society because 'we can't punish kids anymore because that's child abuse',

People need 2 jobs to make rent, and tech companies are profiting massively by relentlessly pushing massively addictive device behaviour and your solution is to start beating kids to see if it helps.

Next you'll be telling me that GIF isn't pronounced like "whiff".

Even if you want to see things in black and white, eliminating private ownership of scientific journals seems like it should be a higher priority than preventing public organisations from self-funding by licensing their output. But it's a red herring anyway in this case: the title should really be "CERN publishes its KiCad component libraries". And there there are interesting questions about the cost/benefit of putting in the effort to make the internal product available externally.

While it's true that Kenya does have a lot of open land, there are some rather large animals which are used to that land being open, and taking city-sized chunks away puts more pressure on already declining populations.

At least some of this will be stress. If you're enjoying something, then you won't be stressed. If you're feeling positive and delighting in what you do, then you won't be stressed in unhealthy ways. This looks similar to the Mozart Effect, which turned out to be that if you liked something, your brain functioned better.

Yes, charging around the stage playing rock music isn't exactly gentle, but it IS extremely good exercise for the heart and the rest of the body. Again, that's going to have positive effects.

(We can ignore Keith Richards in this model, as he's older than the universe and only created it as a place to store his guitars.)

I'm on a Q820 from 17 years ago at home.

Still runs fine, still had more RAM and disc than a number of new laptops which is a bit sad.

I remember the nimbus!

My school had a network of discless machines.

They could also boot into BBC mode with a reasonably good BBCBasic interpreter and RM mode as xxx well.

They were pretty good in their niche, really though the Archi was a fool 32 bit very fast RISC computer that knocked the competition into a cocked hat. Struggled on a bit but then vanquished into the embedded space until a few years ago.

1941 to 1990

You mean 1939?

Oh yeah wait a mo America only "came to its allies aid" after being attacked. That my man is not being a reliable ally, that's being purely self interested.

US hasn't been a reliable ally to anyone sans maybe Israel in decades.

When has the US been a reliable ally?

Most posters seem to be assuming it's a scam. I can't possibly think of a reason why they might think that. (A few million, yes, but getting it down to one is hard.)

However, that's almost by the by. It's rated for 5G. 5G is old. 6G is the new standard and WiFi 6 has been around for a while now. If you're actually serious about designing a new phone from scratch, and have not yet released it, you'd almost certainly want it to be 6G-capable. Nobody in their right minds designs for yesterday's standards, when they're going to be competing with tomorrow's products.

This, to me, is far far more important than whether or not it is real. If you're designing a product for a market that's on its way out, you've got a serious problem. If you're clamouring for a product that's designed for a standard that could be phased out by the time you see it, then you're not thinking straight.

Why does this matter, if the product isn't real anyway? First, we don't know it's not real, we shouldn't assume that. But, second, it means that nobody thought it was worth bothering with taking the potential customers seriously. The customers are merely meat with cash. That's not an attitude I can respect. Whichever vendor is making these phones is worthy only of my utmost contempt.

Parents no longer parent and expect the schools to teach their unruly and coddled child.

cool.

Why?

The computers sat in a lab, and the kids would interact with them a couple times a week in a structured (instructed) setting.

Good grief no!

All the value I got was in the non structured settings where you could fart around on the computers without interference from teachers who by and large didn't know much about computers at all. Of course there was no internet at that point so that was mostly programing. I always did best in the least heavily structured subjects.

I do not know why Americans hate nuance so much but it's pretty deeply ingrained in our culture.

Puritanism.

Murder a bunch of toddlers? Murder is a sin and you're going to hell.

Steal a loaf of bread to feed you starving kid? Stealing is a sin and you're going to hell.

The end result's the same and equally bad either way, regardless of the sin. This strips away all nuance. If you're good you go to heaven, if you sin you go to hell.