Re: That was then...
As an American I probably shouldn't be supportive of the Brits spying on our President.
As an American I hope for sure that as many external observers as possible are keeping an eye on this damn nutcase in the White House.
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Trump is just trying to make government spending more efficient. NASA will get to focus on space while their climate project funding is redirected towards other agencies.
You know, like the EPA, the UN climate project, the Dept. of Energy's clean sources research, the NOAA, the various health and human services groups trying to prevent human suffering due to climatic displacement, various academic climate projects supported by the government...
Yeah, because based on this guy's past, the authorities wouldn't have made him a scapegoat and used that to sweep the whole affair under the rug.
In a completely fair world, it's reasonable to expect the accidental receiver of a leak to contact the sender before going completely public, and work out some kind of productive narrative that improves security in the future; in this case the balance of power is completely unfair.
If the agents doing the screening knew what they were talking about, instead of just reading scripts off Google. Of course then they would probably be too smart to be front-rank screeners in the first place. And then they'd be able to detect and identify software engineers efficiently and courteously, which would defeat the real intent of the program, which is to harass and intimidate brown people.
Pai: "America's approach to broadband will be practical, not ideological"
*Ignores all practical data supporting Wheeler's assertion that net neutrality had no significant limiting effect on network infrastructure investment or business growth
*Frames his entire argument around a "regulations are bad for businesses" generalist ideology that historically, has tended to work out horribly for consumers, commons, and sustainable capitalism
Just straight up abandoning any kind of pretense of working for anyone but the dudes slipping bucks into his pocket.
But my brain is telling me "One significant figure? Better put a +/-5% range of error on that."
This isn't a criticism of the company, I'm sure they are professionals doing their best, but if I saw a number like that in a vendor bid the voices in my head my numeric OCD would ask exactly how many zeros worth of uptime availability really were promised after the first digit.
I have the same TI-89 that I (got my parents to) bought when I was in high school. Even for 1999 it had a slow, outdated processor; today it's absolutely stone-age compared to a modern smartphone.
Anyway, this overpriced clunky monopolized chunk of ugly black plastic, dim puke-grey screen and obscurely confusing interface, got me through two years of high school, 4 years of college, and 10 years of molecular genetics and it still works just as well right now where it is a permanent feature of my desk.
That's why people buy TI graphing calculators, aside from all the superficially horrible overpriced features they are in fact extremely useful general purpose mathematical tools.
Here in America, cops who want you to consent to a search will argue that refusal to consent to a search is suspicious enough to be grounds for a forcible search. So obviously, asking to get your picture removed should be a clear sign to law enforcement that you're going to be committing crimes in the near future, and thus they need to keep your pictures on file.
Remember, you wouldn't have had a mug shot taken if you weren't guilty of something, and the innocent have nothing to hide.
The ex-GF just started a job as an admin assistant in a sales office. About a week after she started, I wanted to pick her up after work for a night out, but I was early and got there at 4pm, before they closed. When I walked in, she and some other people were having trouble with their Tektronics network printer, so I introduced myself and walked her boss through the admin interface and the fix.
Then: "Maybe we should hire you instead of her".
Well as soon as we got out of there my GF had a major emotional incident because she had confidence issues and really needed the job, and didn't think the joke was funny. I gave her manager my card and contract pricing information in case they needed a support consultant in the future, but never heard back from them.
PETA kills 80% of the animals they get their hands on- most of them healthy and re-homable, and then fritters away donations from well-meaning people on celebrity billboards and publicity stunts.
Meanwhile in the real world, responsible researchers are answerable to in-house animal ethics oversight, as well as funding agencies, the government, Retractionwatch, and the popular media. If you have any evidence that a specific project, particularly one that has just got a media profile, is cruel and unnecessary, lots of people will want to hear about it- assuming you're not just blowing hot air, of course.
Yeah that's kind of an obvious problem, and when you get there it's mostly just sighing, facepalming, and but Tradition!, which is kind of the whole Pluto=planet argument anyway.
But you have to be careful with the "sun orbit" requirement anyway, since pendants like myself will point out that the Jupiter-Sol barycenter is outside the sun, so technically they orbit each other.
for encouraging the sorts of independent learning that this newest guide seems to be discouraging, for supporting my interests leading to a career even if they didn't always understand what I wanted to do, and for not putting up with this kind of "warning signs of X" bullshit.
Honesty in the technology sector news, what is this world coming to.
Although you neglected to mention that despite featuring wireless recharging, the phone still needs to be plugged into the iCharger for so that you have to buy a $99 charger for each phone security authentication purposes. Oh and the wall cable on the iCharger starts to fray and split after 12 months.
Company lawyer in court: "The value of this data to our corporation is effectively priceless, therefore we are not going to accept anything less than the highest settlement and stiffest sentence against the defendant."
Company HR rep email to all staff: "Nothing of value to us was stolen, and you'd never be able to prove that this directly led to your identity being stolen, so don't even try suing us over our obvious negligence. In fact we wouldn't even be telling you this if the communists in the media hadn't picked it up, that's how little you mean to us."
An important part of a Reg review of any laptop should be the experience of trying to install Ubuntu/Mint/Debian on it, because it seems that's what a significant minority of the readers here are going to want to do to anything as soon as they buy it. And Best Buy salespeople get all flustered and stern when you try to do that to their demo machines.
...when the first email you see Monday morning is an innocuous little thing from the director, asking "I have a file I can't open on my personal laptop, the extension is .osiris."
Hey, if they want to pay me for a couple of easy hours to do a nuke, reinstall, and backup restore, instead of my more difficult actual job... they're the management.
The reason you're getting a downvote is that I got one of these automatically generated citations for:
1. A different state I'd never been in at the time
2. A car I don't own and in fact have no license to operate
So do I travel to court in a different state to dispute the charge, just pay the $50, or hire an out-of-state lawyer to represent me? Why is the system set up so that when the charge is inevitably dismissed, the company automatically generating these complaints doesn't have to cover the costs of their perjury or face any legal penalty?
I call it a creative incubation sabbatical, fully funded through certain agencies of the government with an interest towards improving general public morality and responsibility.
Also I misread the name of the refund representative as Noorah Naked and that peaked my interest.
Hmm yes I have a great idea lets name a county after a thing that for health purposes we try to train out of everyone starting as young children.
Oh well if we get infected out here in my home of Middle Sex County I fully expect The Reg to headline that with "Software Transmittable Disease" or similar.
Best Buy, their salespeople will likely take your request seriously, put your request into their product finder, offer to look for it in the back, try to upsell you on actual computer RAM that's "totally compatible" with your stringed instrument, and then offer a three year warranty at checkout.