Cool, sounds reasonable.
Many of us made similar changes years ago. For me, as far back as 1999 at startup project.net (since acquired).

Nobody cares. We have nothing to hide.

Standby for a brief poetry break!

Your Dog Dies
by Raymond Carver

it gets run over by a van.
you find it at the side of the road
and bury it.
you feel bad about it.
you feel bad personally,
but you feel bad for your daughter
because it was her pet,
and she loved it so.
she used to croon to it
and let it sleep in her bed.
you write a poem about it.
you call it a poem for your daughter,
about the dog getting run over by a van
and how you looked after it,
took it out into the woods
and buried it deep, deep,
and that poem turns out so good
you're almost glad the little dog
was run over, or else you'd never
have written that good poem.
then you sit down to write
a poem about writing a poem
about the death of that dog,
but while you're writing you
hear a woman scream
your name, your first name,
both syllables,
and your heart stops.
after a minute, you continue writing.
she screams again.
you wonder how long this can go on.

I know a bit about radio frequency (RF), doppler radar, jamming GPS (passive and active). Near-range drone detection, tracking and characterization (within inches) is simple using doppler radar.

The real issue here is counter measures. When do you shoot (CRAM), capture, use active GPS to shift off course, etc.? Drones (electric or combustion) do emit a unique RF and acoustic signature that could be used for close range real-time counter measure decisions.

If these stars are burning He to produce H2, we are on to something.

"... bodies that form by shedding their hydrogen-filled outer layers quickly, exposing a bright hot, helium-burning core."

> Except that they didn't figure out when they were eight that this will never work.

This one goes to 11.

After being away working on CentOS and Archlinx for Asterisk radio station links, I'm back on Debian... home sweet home.

You're wearing it wrong.

Nokia still exists?

Matlab has become a popular intro CS language for engineering students. And, you've probably noticed that those $300K per year PhD "Algorithm Designers" in your company use Matlab for development, then have someone translate the final algorithm to a production language.

> School is not about earning a living and that is not even a legitimate consideration.

I strongly disagree. I'm a supporter (political and financial) of liberal education, but public schools' main mission in society is to provide the knowledge and skills to be a productive and useful citizen. There will be poets, artists, and philosophers despite the curricula.

Roger Bly
(closely related to a poet)

I disagree. We have GATE kids and our school day is 8am-2pm and one "half day". That gives plenty of time for our half dozen outside activities, independent reading and play time. 300 days a year is too much, but 180 is not enough.

There are two themes. Days per year of education and school break schedule.

I'm a big fan of "year-round" school schedules for K-12, but think higher education works best with a long summer break. In the US, a year-round schedule is typically the same number of days as the traditional schedule; about 180 days. In many Asian countries, it's 240-250 days per year. US and EU have seasonal farming. Prior to the industrial revolution, having the kids home for 3-4 months during the growing season made sense, but not anymore.

K-12:
* There should be 200+ days of free socialized education (increase from the current 180 days)

* A typical K-12 year-round vs. traditional school schedule looks like this:
http://www.nayre.org/calendar_comparison.htm

* My father was a Superintendent of Schools in the Los Angeles area. He converted K-8 to year-round largely because the majority Hispanic population would return to Mexico around Christmas for several weeks and the schools would loose crucial ADA funds. It also keeps kids from regressing in their learning over long breaks.

Higher Ed:
* Keep the
* Keep the 3 month summer holiday. Summer jobs and Internships are critical for the development, and often finances, of young adults.
* There is more choice in accreditation and schedule for higher ed.

I continue my father's mission by financially supporting year-round school lobby orbs. Personally, we are still on a traditional school schedule with our two elementary kids, but would prefer a year-round schedule. We like to take time off and travel for 1-2 months a year with the kids. The year-round schedule helps space out the travel.

I voted "other", but do have a small XP VMWare VM on the MacBook for running windows apps when needed. You can do a lot with a little 1GB ram, 20 disk, 1CPU XP VM.... fast (5-10 sec) boots and resumes on a 4-core, SSD MacBook Pro.

I don't think he is saying you penalized by not having a Porshce for all your hard work, just that he'd rather live in a society that did not use it's resources to build Porshces, or want Porshces. That fair.

Come on, let's all sing it.. "Imagine there's no Porshce. It's easy if you try..."