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According to George Burns "Once you get to be 100 you have it made because very few people die past age 100."

I remember reading about someone that had created a workaround for this. She had exterior cameras and their images were projected onto the car's pillars, so that when you looked at a pillar you actually saw "through it", i.e. the exterior view it was hiding. I wish I could find the reference.

I don't understand why they need to use fiber to guide the drones instead of using frequency-hopping spread spectrum (which, incidentally, was invented in the 1940's by film star Hedi Lamarr).

I could be wrong, but I'm inclined to believe that many more people work on Tuesdays than Sundays.

I've never understood why elections are held on a Tuesday. Why aren't they held on a Sunday, which would eliminate the excuse of "I have to go to work"?

"What's $1,000? Mere chicken-feed. A poultry matter." (Groucho Marx)

I've created a couple of production web sites that way. I used htp, which allows me to create multiple pages with the same layout by using a mechanism similar to C's #include. This is used at development time, so the Web pages generated are all static (no server-side includes), but by editing a single file and "recompiling" I can change the layout, look and feel of the entire web site.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/htp/files/

Personal computer, using SCCS for version control and daily backups.

I was wondering about that. Even if they keep their hardware from 1988, it needs maintenance: disk drives wear out, power supplies burn out, CRT monitors die, keyboards suffer coffee spills, etc.

Procrastination is a good thing. Never put it off until tomorrow.

Of course the correct term is procrastination, and not procastination. But we'll fix it tomorrow.

In my Linux install (Debian 12/Bookworm) /usr/bin/open is a symlink to /usr/bin/xdg-open so I was always using xdg-open without even knowing it.

Plus, the battery now doesn't make it through the day without recharging.

Marriott Web site works fine for me. Firefox on Debian Linux. Fresh install, so there were no prior cookies or other data from Marriott on this computer that could have hinted I was a repeat visitor.

Also at https://archive.ph/JOqMc

Tariffs motivate smuggling. Smugglers corrupt the government's tax authorities so they will look the other way. Consumers who buy the cheaper product know full well it's smuggled goods. Conclusion: tariffs corrupt all of society. I saw this first hand growing up in South America with tariffs on all imported goods.

Up to now I have been using elvis exclusively, rather than vim, both on Windows and Linux - I never saw the need to switch, since elvis does everything I need. I just retired it last month, when I upgraded some systems to the latest release of Debian Bookworm and the elvis graphic interface started crashing the whole X windows manager. I have the source code, but I don't have the patience to recompile and debug it.

I'm impressed, but with my declining eyesight I don't think I could read most of the dials, even with glasses - I can't even read the date on my Timex. I would love to see a copy of the User's Guide for this watch though.

How petty. Marco Rubio was right. Trump does have small hands.

> Median real wages have remained relatively flat over the past 15 years, increasing only about 0.3% annually when adjusted for inflation, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. In contrast, the cost of living — particularly for essentials like housing, healthcare, and education — has risen dramatically.

That is plain wrong. The cost of living is THE factor we use to adjust for inflation. Therefore, by definition, the cost of living when adjusted for inflation does not change.

Citigroup used to have a world class software and hardware development Center in Los Angeles called Transaction Technology (TTI). They designed and built two generations of ATM machines that were head and shoulders above what other banks had. They also implemented a world class home banking service that was way ahead of what other banks were trying. Then, as a cost-cutting measure the layoffs started, followed by a move of the whole Center from Los Angeles to, as I recall, Cleveland because they could save money in the rent. They gave the staff the option of moving to Cleveland or quitting. Many quit. Others moved until they could retire.

Use parental controls at the router to prevent the printer from accessing anything outside our in-house network. If it acts like a child, treat it like one.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

There's a scene in the movie "The Right Stuff" that shows this. Pretty funny ...

Old joke: A man walks into an auto parts shop and asks "Can I get a rear view mirror for my Yugo?" The sales clerk thinks for a few seconds and replies "Seems like a fair trade to me."

I was in the San Francisco Bay Area on July 4th, 1976. To celebrate the 200th Independence Day, the City of San Francisco set up an elaborate fireworks display on Alcatraz Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, which made it visible from all over the area. That afternoon a group of friends and I went up to the Berkeley Hills, where we had unimpeded view of the Bay, Alcatraz, San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, everything. We had a picnic with the usual stuff graduate students eat and then waited for darkness and the fireworks. Just as the sun was setting behind the Golden Gate bridge, the fog started rolling in from the ocean, blanketing first the Golden Gate, then all of San Francisco, then Alcatraz and finally reaching the Berkeley shore. At the appointed time, they set off the fireworks anyway. All you could see was flashes of light inside the fog.

One would have thought they learned a lesson that day ....

One way to test lots of patients where a) there's a low probability that an individual patient will have the disease and b) the test is expensive is to first mix some of the blood of each of N patients and do one test on the mix. If the batch tests negative then all patients are negative and you've only paid for one test. If the batch tests positive then you have to repeat the test on the remaining blood of each of the N patients to determine which were positive. Thus, with a high probability you only pay for 1 test, and with a low probability you have to pay for N+1 tests. The value of N is easily computed to minimize the overall cost, given the cost of each test and the percentage of patients that have the disease.

My wife and I have now started both receiving similar messages, but this time purportedly from '<notifications@zellepay.com>'. Same M.O.

I receive them too. They indeed come "From: <service@paypal.com>", but the dead giveaway is that the recipient is "To: fred smith <order_status10@jwa.onmicrosoft.com>". I'm NOT "fred smith" or any of the other random names they use. The emails arrive from the onmicroft.com servers, not the PayPal servers.

It looks like they create the fake account at onmicrosoft.com, then have paypal send an email to that account and then make onmicrosoft.com forward it to all their intended victims.