RTFH (read the fine headline) dude.

Too late. Both Duck Dodgers and Marvin the Martian have claimed Planet X.

When I was at UCSC in the early '80s (specifically '82-'84), there was a minor rebellion among CS students. The curriculum was mostly theoretical, with very few practical options. Programming (in Pascal!) was taught, as a means to learning/implementing theory -- i.e. automata theory, language theory, etc...

The students wanted more practical courses, such as VAX assembly. Of course, in hindsight, the department knew what it was doing.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The difference is that this article is running in a VMWare instance.

Much as I like VirtualBox, they have a big problem... named Oracle. We've seen what Oracle has done with Java. Who is to say they won't do the same to VBox?

And tomorrow, this satirical bug report will be sent to Stenberg by some AI bot.

I used to go to a certain Starbucks regularly on my way to work (I know... sue me). One morning I walked in, and when I got to the counter, I was given my regular order, before I could even say anything.

Of course, they weren't reading my social media (it didn't exist at the time). But what's happening here is really just good customer service.

The COVID mRNA vaccines were the culmination of decades of research into genetic vaccines that could be in essence engineered to target a selected antigen without the years of trial and error that are required by the methods we have been using since the 1950s. Within days of the virus genome being published, they had a vaccine design, the months it took to get to the public were taken up with studies of the safety and effectiveness of the heretofore untested technology, ramping up production, and preparing for the distribution of a medicine that required cryogenic storage.

It would be unreasonable not to give the Trump administration credit for not mucking up this process. But the unprecedented speed of development wasnâ(TM)t due to Trump employing some kind of magical Fuhrermojo. It was a stroke good fortune that when the global pandemic epidemiologists have been worried about arrived, mRNA technology was just at the point where you could use it. Had it arrived a decade earlier the consequences would have been far worse, no matter who was president.

The lesson isnâ(TM)t that Trump is some kind of divine figure who willed a vaccine into existence, itâ(TM)s that basic research that is decades from practical application is important.

T-Rex complained about there not being enough hours in a day to do everything. Wished days were about 1/2 hour longer!!!

Yep, I'd been doing it wrong for years. I was using plastic bags because I thought they were recyclable. My daughter started working for the city and told me they weren't.

Now I use paper bags in the recycle bin in the house.

I expect the fertility rate in the US to rise due to the following:

• * Lack of contraception (I expect SCOTUS to reverse Griswold)
• * Increased child mortality due to lower vaccination rates, and epidemics of "eliminated" childhood diseases
• * Lack of education as more school boards are taken over by religious fundamentalists.

I watch a lot of maritime disaster videos, so YouTubeâ(TM)s genius algorithm thinks Iâ(TM)d be interested in traveling on a cruise ship.

Orion is not Starliner.

It wasn't nicknamed the "Senate Launch System" for nothing.

About 10(?) years ago, I was at a Gabriel Iglesias show at PHX (known at the time as Talking Stick) Arena.

He had literally just asked everyone in the arena to turn off their cell phones, when every single phone in the arena went off... Amber Alert. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen.