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Even Texas? (yes I know, I deserve to be downvoted, guilty pleasure)

I had to watch each video twice before answering. And if I hadn't been given the possibilities in a multiple choice format, I may have gotten something wrong.

I found the car stop the most threatening for the officer. Seriously, if you're stopped by the cops, hands on top of the steering wheel... reaching for insurance papers looks hella scary.

I remember trying to use the Services for UNIX Version 1.0 Korn shell for a job. Coming from bash/zsh, I loathed it. I opted for Cygwin's bash ASAP.

Just upgraded to WMF 5.0 on Windows 7. Start time is much better now. 4 seconds vs 8 seconds on a 2nd gen i5.

Even if you have a bespoke baby, it's still requires the couples' genetic material... And someone has to carry that thing to term. No one's invented a Ronco Gestation Appliance to sit on your kitchen counter yet - I believe that would cause a serious disconnect with human reproduction. As long as the parents start pumping out the hormones during the pregnancy, there really isn't an issue. But you could always make a pill for that...

I think tech workers should have a 'strategic vacation reserve' specifically to deal with this situation.

I was forced to train someone so cocky that they ended up doing a rm -rf / on our production server a month after I quit. He also accidentally euthanized a legacy server, deleted the accounting database when he was trying to do a hardware based RAID rebuild, completely destroyed the Windows domain server and mocked my daily tape backup regimen - opting to ship USB consumer grade hard drives in an unpadded steel box instead to off-site storage... The list goes on. He literally destroyed everything he touched. The only reason he wasn't fired was because he was a pretty man.

Totally there. If your electricity is cheap, it's an awesome deal. Since, oh about, 2009, there are a lot of choices that are akin to buying a '57 Chevy.

Yet that seems to be standard for most recruiters. Do you have 6 years experience using Server 2012? My favourite question ever (made by a recruiter in 2010) was, do you have 8 years of experience programming Android? Or what's the difference between Java and Javascript? Gah...

Well remember Euclid's geometry is fundamentally flawed. The parallel postulate, that fact that parallel lines never meet, can be be used to really mess with a grade 7-12 math teacher's head if you invest the time to teach a couple of tricks to your kid.

The simplest example is to show that an obtuse angle and a right angle are the same through a construction. The placement of points is crucial to make that work.

It's cute that the article is littered with Amazon referral links to textbooks.

I am failing to download the signed key in Debian Linux when running update-flashplugin-nonfree from the flashplugin-nonfree package. (Key not maintained by Adobe...)

Meanwhile I just noticed that my Windows Firefox plugins for Reader DC are not 2015.010.20060 but .20056. I leave these completely disabled at all times anyway.

And nothing annoys me more than having to download the self-deleting autodownloader in Windows.

What a total waste of time for something I rarely use these days...

Footnote on the graphic: *All payout amounts are chosen at the discretion of ZERODIUM and are subject to change or cancellation without notice.

Translation: "Show us what you got and then we'll screw you over."

Sounds like you're less likely to get screwed by an escrow service found on TOR.

This sort of stuff does happen. I knew of one company whose insurance limits them to something like 20 containers per vessel. During the Han lunar new year they the would place as many as 35 onto a single ship. One of these would be bound to be on top, especially if you can somehow determine when they entered the loading dock relative to other containers on the vessel. They'd probably get zero coverage once the insurer found out they'd overloaded too.

"Hacking" might not be an appropriate term here though. Most shipping website security is beyond awful. I've used Selenium to pull stuff off of shipping sites before as APIs are almost non-existent. When they do exist, they return fixed length text that you have to decode or you're using something archaic like automated email replies when you email a container number to them. (I have sent thousands of emails in a five minute period to a single VOCC to figure out if they were actually the ones shipping something and where the cargo is.) Lastly I've actually sent emails to website support on tracking sites telling them they weren't sanitizing inputs at all. Zero interest or chest pounding brush off reply.

As for barcodes, they probably mean shipping container number (ISO 6346 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6346).

Now all you need are pirates with a Russian Mil Mi-26 to dig for the buried treasure on the vessel while at sea (like in William Gibson's Spook Country)

Nothing so quickly emphasizes that a bag of tricks can turn into actual math more than a linear algebra course. In a math degree you can literally take the same course twice. At a first year level you will learn to perform all these tricks with matrices and get a hint of inner product spaces. In 2nd or 3rd year you'll do the reverse and justify why matrix algebra works in the first place.

But the harder a subject, the longer it feels like learning a bag of tricks. The first partial differential equations course feels like you are working on only 3 problems for 4 months.

edit: I had a prof whose first DE course was at the graduate level. At the oral exam he was asked to give an example of a differential equation and all he could do was point to phi on the blackboard.

A whole new branch of law emerges: leg clot liability

It’s got a 32-bit UEFI Bootloader which isn’t Linux friendly. Just like most compute sticks. I think even the Intel Compute Stick with Linux on it was limited to Ubuntu 12.04...

I spent an afternoon once getting Linux to run on the Lenovo stick and an HP Stream 7. I returned them because I don't ever want to have to do that again. I can't even picture using one of these on a daily basis.

All 234 of them... who are left?

Wholehearted agreement.

The only time Skype worked for me was on a Nokia N800. It actually worked so well that it delayed my mobile phone adoption for a year. It just worked. Enter this decade where I think I paid for a subscription for almost 4 years and maybe got one or two good calls on other devices during the whole stint.

Messaging systems seemed to work so much better last decade when they were still P2P. I maintained real relationships on them as opposed to no one ever being online on Skype and the shame that is Facebook.

Had a client who later wanted me to do add all sorts of nasty things to an Android app template that I had made for him: Locking out primary navigation buttons, partially replacing the home app, spying on the user, and the capability to send out very expensive SMS texts and auto dial long distance phone calls. Unfortunately I was unavailable to do the addons he wanted, despite him asking repeatedly over the next 18 months. Never trust an Android app...

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20 seconds of nostalgic entertainment

It is some small comfort that her legacy cannot be further tarnished under the fiction of her consent.

Careful, your privilege is showing.

edit: Seriously on the downvotes? If your job is to travel to another country to render aid because of conditions caused by your own country sending troops to facilitate a coup, and then you send your underlings to make sure you have golden toilets on your visit, then something is messed up. If you can't see that and you're downvoting me for it, congrats, you are the problem.

I got sat next to a CIDA worker at a wedding. She talked about her duties ensuring that a Canadian agency head was provided with adequate and hygienic toilets in Haiti. Reports included trips to various places and pictures of each possible crapper along the way. Tax dollars at work...

Can you imagine being the lead team on that? The existential ennui alone about the pointlessness of it all.

edit:forgot to mention that it was Haiti, acronym is CIDA, not CANAID

Without a doubt, I ran Squeeze longer than any version of any distribution since 1995. It was the distro that broke my Ubuntu laziness.

Well not anymore at least. Streams and lambdas wouldn't be implemented if that was the case.

But there's a good chance your grandfather had the cojones to join a union to fight for better working conditions. It's better to live a life where you can actually improve your lot than live as a subservient cog holding on for an ever smaller piece of the pie.

History of math class... one of the assignments was to find the error in a Babylonian secant table and also reason out how the computing error happened. Fun.

One thing I want to know from Surface Book owners is whether the keyboard can be configured for smoother productivity.

Naviagational (Home/PgUp/PgDown/End) and volume keys are on by default meaning that you have to press the Fn-Alt-Function Key if you want to use Alt-Function. The problem with that is that an independent Fn press will lock out the function key, toggling the behaviour so that Function Keys are now the default.

I would like it if LAlt-FunctionKey was different behaviour from RAlt-FunctionKey. LAlt-F4 would close a program while RAlt-Function Key would change the volume. The requirement to use the Fn Key and the fact that the Fn can be locked (and easily and accidentally unlocked/locked again) is a serious usability issue.

Actually I'd prefer a full real keyboard... nevertheless the Surface Book and the SP4 keyboards are massive improvements.

Moreover, does anyone know if the undocking button next to the Delete key can be locked out, say, requiring a key combination instead?

Odd to think that a simple undershirt (that costs $2000) could get you a couple months in prison in British Columbia, Canada:

http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/free...