| Where is Darl's lawyer brother?

23 years takes a toll on people. Darl McBride died in 2024. According to his obituary, he was preceded in death by his lawyer brother Kevin.

David Mirriott has been in it from the beginning. He was initially at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine, and Moore, but recently moved to Latham & Watkins, but in doing so he brought along the SCO/Xinuos case with him. He presented the oral argument for IBM at the recent appellate court hearing. I think he enjoys the entertainment value of swatting down his opponents at every trun.

That's what I get when trying to access www.cisa.gov from Firefox (currently supported ESR version). Of course it works fine in web browsers from deep-pocketed cowtowing corporate companies. Makes you wonder. Hmmm.

From what I've read, it was the opposite. The mom was supposed to go, but the kid wanted to go (had even built a Lego model of the Titanic) so she gave up her seat. Bad info came from his aunt.

| sqrt(2.25) - 1.5

Haven't checked my slide rule, but 2 different aps and a pocket calculator give the same (correct) answer.

Ernie Ball - the guitar string company - was raided by the BSA and subsequently humiliated publicly, all in the name of selling software licenses. Sterling Ball was not impressed - he went totally open source after that. Wonder if the BSA has told France about this fun episode?

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech...

... "boxes of carrier pigeons ..."

Allegedly a solved problem. RFC 1149 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc... :

"A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers"

Or then again, maybe not.

No need for an ejection seat. The blowout door plug, available as an option from Boeing on the 737 Max, is the ideal way to remove unruly passengers.

+1

"Every day, we stray further from Unix"

Uh, which Unix? Xenix? Ultrix? SunOS? Solaris? IRIX? HP-UX? AIX? UnixWare? BSD? SVR4?

But I understand your pain. My favorite Fortran-66 standards-compliant source code subroutine can no longer be compiled on any system that I have tried. Maybe *BSD will do the trick.

Godfrey is notorious for making all kinds of assertions that are provably wrong. In his root cause analysis of AI 171, he directly quotes an FAA Advisory Circular that is publicly available, except when you read it, the cited text doesn't exist. Total fabrication. Thomas, who by his own admission is technically illiterate, nevertheless slaps Godfrey on the back and says, "Good work Richard!" Total balderdash.

Supercar was invented in 1960. Move along, nothing to see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I would occasionally submit timecards recording over 100 hours per week, and I had a guy working for me who recorded 16 hours per day for an entire week. HR would come back screaming that there was an error, please fix. Nope - It was accurate. My boss would chide us and say we shouldn't be doing that. Of course we ignored him. Those were good times.

Apple Intelligence? Aritificial intelligence? Artificial ingredients?

This was decades later, and while his spoke only sparingly of his times working on the Manhatten project, here are his recollections of what he saw:

https://web.archive.org/web/20...