Dog-like robot with antennas that can take over electronics? If they're not calling it K9, I'm going to be very disappointed.

I'm waiting for Sam The Cooking Guy to show me how to make one at home... but better! (Hint: one slice of Havarti in the middle.)

As if they needed the help...

So far, I haven't gotten Covid despite attending 4 large conferences in the last year (2 of which turned out to be super-spreader events). I attribute this good fortune to wearing a mask any time I felt uncomfortable with the crowd, washing my hands frequently, judicious use of sanitizer, keeping distance where I could, and most important, having all my jabs (I like the UK term for the boosters). I'm not in a rush to get this one, but I'll definitely be in line when it comes available.

I am pretty sure it is an amiga connected to internet by a satellite link.

One of my favorites. I can't listen to Right Said Fred without picturing Ernest Borgnine.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go wax my lobby, if you get my meaning.

According to the article, they're having NIST prepare the standards and controls, with a 5-year refresh. If this was the legislators coming up with standards, as they did with HIPAA, I think it would be doomed to fail. But NIST knows their stuff - the controls in Special Publication 800-53 rev 4 are pretty solid, and come with mappings for low, moderate and high security situations. Like FedRAMP for cloud providers, this will become a bar for entry into the public sector, and at this point, it has the potential for being a good one.

I've written code in PERL, Python, C (just plain C, none of your fancy C+#^ stuff, you young whippersnappers), Java, and REXX that was used to support business processes in production. But honestly, I wouldn't say I know any of those languages - if I don't have a reference available, I'm lost. I "know" those languages like someone with a pocket phrasebook "knows" a foreign language.

All roads lead to bigotry, scatological humor, and sex.

Because taken as a whole, the Internet is a 12-year-old boy who has no filters, wants to see boobies, and thinks fart jokes are hilarious.

Just like college...

Things that cause Edge to run poorly would be redundant.

Curious.

Does your definition of "liberty" include forcing privately-owned and operated Web sites to carry and publish material that the proprietors may fundamentally disagree with?

Would the proprietors of these Web sites fall under your definition of "evil men that would do us harm" if they attempted to establish and enforce their own principles on their own private property?

This is fairly common in the US for public sector workers as well. We're paid according to a published scale, so an IT Professional, level 4, in the position 6 years, makes whatever the scale says, period. Everyone's classification, grade and step is published in the state employee directory (in the interests of open government). Hell, there's even a site that publishes our W-2 earnings information every year.

Comes in handy, though. Whenever I hear someone talking about how overpaid government workers are, I point them to that site. Shuts them up quick.

Yeah, Microsoft definitely needs to be concerned about losing market share with end users. Why, if this trend continues, they may fall below 80% of all desktops worldwide!

But in all seriousness, this is taking niche marketing to a new level. I mean, "Spring Creators Update"? What about people who create other things, like shock absorbers or U-joints? What's so special about folks who create springs, for crying out loud?

Anytime someone says they support strong encryption but want to be able to bypass whenever they have the need, my head wants to explode. Any bypass, back door or master key, no matter how well designed, perfectly implemented, or zealously protected, fundamentally weakens the encryption they claim to support. If a way around the encryption exists, someone will find and exploit it. Pure and simple.

I'm all for law enforcement being able to do their job. But I'm also all for strong encryption - my job in information security depends on it, and the sensitive information of millions of people would be at risk without it. Encryption is a tool, like a hammer: people with bad intent can use it to build harm as well as upstanding citizens can use it to build good. I'm sorry, but law enforcement needs to find another way to get to those nails, rather than make hammers defective for everyone.