This was a normal TGIF meeting at Google, with lots of questions. I've seen previous TGIF with much more disruptive or rude questions that don't make headlines. I think the new outlets (and Slashdot trolls) are hoping for something scandalous but this really isn't it.

Telepresence solutions have been done before with great success in experience. Look up HP Halo (my favorite) or Cisco Telepresence, or Tanderg (which Cisco bought). Forming the room to give better equity to remote participants is one of the critical points to making telepresence stand out from plain old video conferencing.

'nuff said

For some reason, this reminded me of a Sherlock Holmes case.

Free online, though you can pick up print if you want. Totally worth reading. I used to have a $20 a week comic book habit back in college, but gave it up when Marvel did the Onslaught storyline. Just got tired of spending too much $$$. But Atomic Robo is the only comic I go out of the way to buy (and have most of the trade paperbacks now). (can't believe I took the bait and replied to this post)

Agreed. I don't think this is a change. 20 years ago when I was a computer science undergrad, I worked in the department office helping to process the grad program applications. We got stacks and stacks of applications from India and China, and very few from the US. You could tell there was a service of some sort helping these foreign students blast out applications to the US grad programs, hoping to stick at one of them. It seemed pretty obvious that it was much easier for these international students to get an undergrad degree in their home country where it is cheaper, then use that degree to apply internationally to increase their prestige and get out into the world. Many were just looking for a full ride or assistance, and if a good enough offer wasn't made they would not come. I don't fault them a bit. Personally, I got my BS in CS, then got a job. I wanted to start paying off my student loans, and when a good offer came from a Fortune 500 company I jumped on it rather than staying with a different offer that would have kept me in academia.

CRLs are poorly used and often ignored, largely because there is no simple built in standard for keeping the CRLs updated and having all connections check them. Its bad enough that our team has gone to only issuing certs with very short life spans and just renewing them often. See https://www.openstack.org/summ...

When you think about it, the government email servers are giant targets for hacking. Its not often reported, but the government systems get hit and experience a lot of downtime. A private, properly secured email server would get far fewer attacks and could be more stable. Just sayin'

As I read the announcement, it is one set with three figures, not three box sets.

I applied for other universities, but when it came down to it I found that going to Oregon State University was the best bang for my then-limited buck. And I've been very happy with my CS degree.

I've been using 4 23inch monitors in an inverted T layout for years now. I slowly scrounged up a matching set as other engineers upgraded their monitors. Its nice to have one monitor just for email and crud out of the way of 'real work'. I even have another 19in monitor off to the side just for the console of my Linux dev box, but I usually use X forwarding to access it from the main workstation.

Yeah, I could probably be talked in to trading all these for a 39in high resolution setup. But I'm pretty happy with this setup, and I can angle the sides in for a better viewing angle. And this was a pretty cost effective setup.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/Forms3/forms3.html I went to OSU and Dr. Burnett was one of my professors. It was great and easy to understand. There ya go, problem solved. :)

A few weeks ago my wife had her iTunes account hacked and about $60 worth of credits charged 'in game' through this game we had never heard of nor downloaded. iTunes support was slow to respond. Fortunately, we did not (and will not) have a credit card associated with our account. Oh, and the jerk downloaded one of our Soup episodes. I blame Apple and the developers that design a game to have such high priced in-game downloads.