This is where Biden should release emails from the Trump admin showing this as well. He can as they are asking the white house for possible collusion in emails.

The Twitter files should nothing of anything more from Biden, Clinton, Obama than Trump. Release them all and make it public in the release.

I think the question is more about why are there two modes (text/graphics) now? Why aren't we doing both? I've wondered the same thing. To me a modern system would let you begin typing; if you didn't have a terminal window already open then it should just show up at the bottom/top of the gui in a text box with maybe a couple of lines and if you 'ls' then maybe it opens a terminal showing the results. The user can then do the things mentioned. Let the user set a preference that when 'ls' is received it, again, a text box at the bottom/top of the gui shows up, but this time the file browser opens.

It's the 21st century and we should have these two modes combined. I don't know why no one has done it yet.

This post took a while to reach here and I kind of thought it wouldn't but it's news.

Anyone else feels like they are just threatening themselves and not Europe? I kind of want Europe to just say, "Ok then, off you go." -- John Cleese style in any Monty Python skit/movie.

Excluding the First World economic countries where people can even think of retirement. I will say, without any source of info just my opinion, that most of the world is poor, and the entire concept of retirement is probably as foreign as the United States, Europe, Japan, etc. are in the first place. Maybe these countries there is a population that has their retirement underfunded. But in the continents Africa, Central/South America, India, etc., I don't think most of these populations even know what retirement is.

I would even venture to say that even in the United States, the lower class, which makes up 25% of the population. The idea of retirement is probably only rich, white people, (anyone upper middle class and above), are the only ones who will ever be able to retire.

Again, in my opinion, and I know more about computers than this subject. I just think the entire article is really telling the whole story. Just the story of those groups of people that make enough to save up and are able to retire are not prepared for retirement.

Personally, I'm choosing not to think about retirement until I hit 70. If you notice most successful, and rich, people never seem to retire they continue to work throughout their life finding other jobs, or starting their own businesses, or just managing their own funds. Not that I'm going to be that successful. I just don't think retirement is for me as I like having a job and being able to make money. I'm still saving for retirement but I'm no seriously planning on using it till sometime after 70.

maybe it's because I lived that history. My first computer was an Apple ][e in 1983. I programmed it and learned so much. I've watched the show and remembered so much. It was great. I loved the characters, and how they left and came back to each other all because of technology that they wanted to create. The show embodied that spirit of just making something and turning that passion into a business or to try to. This still happens and will continue because we will continue to want to make something. Why did no one like it? Maybe it had more geek spirit than the general audience cared for.

I've done it. I ha[d|ve] AT&T U-verse. I hated paying $10 for HD service when SD service no longer exists anywhere except for cable-land so they can continue to charge extra for it. Unless I purchase 400+ channels that I don't want to watch and can't even watch. So, I downgraded to just Basic cable. This month, I finally finished the upgrade to the antenna system, Plex media server upgrade, and verified that I average 600 Gb/month on internet traffic with all the changes. Plex serves the HD antenna live stuff to my TVs (Amazingly, AT&T basic is only 20 channels but with the HD antenna I'm picking up 45 local channels). And I can pause, record with it. I have SlingTV for "cable" channels that I do care about which is probably about half of what they offer.

Now, here is where it gets interesting. I called AT&T to cancel Basic since I'm up and running fine through my own implementation, and they guy was telling me I would be data capped to 1TB since I wouldn't have a TV service to keep it unlimited, cue scary music. When I told him that I didn't need to worry as I verified that I avg 600 GB/month and have never come close to 1TB. Then the song and dance of how great cable was and that I should at least keep the box and the basic for $19. I still told him no and then he said if I didn't cancel cable he would give it to me for $10. I asked for how long and would I need a contract? Lifetime of the service (barring the usual increases). The answer was no. When I said that I didn't have a box to view it and my Smart TV doesn't have a tuner card and I didn't want to rent a box. And he said that would be included in the $10 and no contracts. And since I kept Basic, the cost of my internet speed at 75 Mbps (top tier for Uverse in my area), would continue to be discounted and I pay $10 (the cost of HD) for unlimited internet which according to the customer service guide, is $10-15 cheaper than paying for Internet access alone and I'm back to unlimited.

So, I'll conclude that cord cutting is freaking out (at least AT&T) the cable companies because how they bundle stuff and change are just absurd. It's not like I don't want cable but I don't need 15 different copies of the same channel, Honestly, with Netflix/Hulu/SlingTV, all my needs have been met for under $50 plus the cost of Internet access which I don't include because I would pay for that regardless of cable. The reality is I believe is that I received cable for $10 because it's more important to them to have a subscriber. I'll just call the $10 backup TV (if ever needed the box isn't even hooked up) and keep my Internet unlimited and costs down.

So, am I still a cord cutter? As far as I'm concerned yes. Will, I stop paying for Basic? Yes. I'm in Charlotte and I'm waiting for Google Fiber to finish the roll out here (please let them finish) and then I'll get faster Internet and no longer need to carry $10 for unlimited.

Every time I read another X is bad and is changing our kids I think of this xkcd comic. https://xkcd.com/1601/ People need to find specific proof. Are cellphones, computers, tablets, changing our brains? Umm, yes. Anything new that are brains have to learn will create new pathways and change our brains. Is that bad? Really, is any learning something new bad? I mean why else have a brain if not to use it and learn new stuff and change our patterns of behavior. Will all patterns be good? Good question, go ask someone, a neurophysiologist, or heck a good old fashioned experimental psychologist will work. If it is good, or bad. Of course, every time I mention that people tell that those scientists don't use terms of good, or bad.

And there is the point of politics. There has to always be a good, or a bad. How else can politicians tell us that they are protecting us.

I know the guy going for this isn't a politician but he falls into that camp that the government needs to protect us from this new fangled technology that is changing our kids brains. Once again we pull our the tried and true, let's protect the children.

Even though we have no evidence of what harm all this stuff is doing. We just don't know that changing our brains is supposed to be bad.

If the Government would just legalize drugs and tax them then it would solve a big problem with the "dark net/deep web/whatever they call it now"!

It's definitely a by choice thing. I've gone back to school to learn everything that interests me about Computer Science. I'm 46 years old working on my Bachelors and my goal is to have my PhD and either do research, teach, and write. Or just research and write. Or just write. I'm not sure about that. I do know that I do not EVER want to retire. Everyone I know that has retired by 65 has become bored with life and either an alcoholic or a zombie. I don't ever want to be bored. For me its not even about money. If I'm at least teaching at a community college and making peanuts I don't care. It's about having something to do and instilling a sense of purpose.

I can't remember my history too well but it seems to me that when FDR instituted Medicare & Social Security it was to help our elders so that they wouldn't be in poverty and living on the streets. It was to help them, and possibly educate them, to save for a future without a job. It has become much more then that and a lot of people never really saved their money (or couldn't because they were trying to make ends meet). But everyone I know that has retired seems to have just given up on life and they are bored. Heck, I get bored watching more than two hours of television I can't imagine what I'd do if I didn't have a job or work to do. I don't need the college education though I just want it. I have a good job with a large company that has no problems employing people over 60+ years of age. I can stay here until I'm tired of cube life but I'm ready for a third career and something that is different and fun.

So no I don't ever want to retire. Coming home after a full day of working and simply fading one night when I'm 110 years old just sounds great to me.

unwanted software. CleanMyMac2 to the rescue. Found all the Parallels Access files and good-bye. No hunting or anything!! Left Parallels alone just removed the PA that I asked not to install. Though I wish everyone would just create an app that keeps it's files to itself so when I trash it EVERYTHING is gone. But then those that make CleanMyMac2 would not be selling their software.

FYI: Ghostery is created and used by advertisors :

Source: wikipedia So they are still receiving tracking information.

Having just spent some time at a Community College and was successful in receiving my Associates to continue to a Traditional Four Year school, and being someone who needed to take Online Courses. The biggest problem that I had was that the instructors did not take it as seriously as their traditional classes. They would spend the face to face time in the classroom and even in their office. But they wouldn't spend the online time with their online students. I've instructors that stated they could be reached by email and there would be 48 hour turn around time, others stated that they would use Skype and even have office hours for that. But most of my emails were answered a week after I needed assistance. And forget about ever finding the instructor on Skype at the times they stated.

Now, the best online instructor I had ran a forum and that really worked. Everyone could see someone's questions and even respond to it but the biggest thing was that by each Saturday afternoon the instructor had responded as well. And if he felt that it was something that needed to be one on one, we would receive a detailed email. But he was, unfortunately, the exception.

With the problems you could take it up with the school but ultimately I never received answers just my grades seemed to be better than I expected, which I felt wasn't the right way to handle it. I think the schools are a little out of touch and nervous about online classes due to the testing of the students. Mine packaged the class and rotated the tests every other semester but the test pool came from the publisher and it wasn't hard to gain access to it. I didn't feel that some of the classes I was taught as just repackaging the answers from the book.

My best online instructor, well he had actually made us write in the answers. No multiple choice, nor true/false, according to some students who took his class in person stated he hated them, and nothing seemed to be coming from the publisher, we had to truly think about our answer and give an answer. So no instant knowledge of the answer and when we received a grade we all felt that we earned it and learned something. I actually understood the subject which happened to be Physics. BTW: I received a 'B' in the class I missed an 'A' by a few points on an online lab but I still felt that I learned more in that online class than the other dozen courses I took online.

My experience, if a school has an online course, then the instructor has to run it just like she was face to face and make time for the students questions because there seemed to be a lot more questions online than the students who were face to face. Why? I dunno but I think it had more to do with the course being a one size fits all packaged course versus the instructor actually has to have a discussion of the subject. I think that schools need to make sure their instructors are teaching and not use those publisher online courses. I don't blame the instructor for the online material just not being 'there' with the students.