rustcharm

Obesity related cognitive decline can/will be a very serious issue given that 2/3rds of westerners are obese or overweight.

I agree with all your points, but I always hesitate to predict these things. The world is moving to touch and the desktop is dying.

If you had asked OS9 users if they thought OSX was better, most of them would have said "OS9 forever"....

My first job out of college was as a software developer on the F-14D project, and the AIM missiles.

It was probably the most interesting job I ever had.

We programmed in CMS-2 and AN/UYK assembly language

I used to use a terminal for everything! And it was a big step forward over punch cards. I remember using my first VT-100 in college, after having taken CS-101 to learn IBM 370 (BAL) assembly language on punched cards. And up until 1988 or so, we were using text terminals for everything, until I got a job at Adobe and started using a Sun workstation. Even then, the windowing environment was used mainly to open terminal windows.

Make passengers with extra circumference and weight pay more.

I took a Lenovo Yoga as a "burner" laptop to DEFCON. Got so many people asking about it, saying they liked the size, the pen and touch interface, and the look and feel. There are many good options today, and Windows 10 is just fine.

I was at DEFCON. I stayed at Caesars. I had a lot of odd stuff in my room. I had no problems.

Security never entered my room, nor did they want to. Why? Because I did the simplest thing. I didn't keep the DND sign on the door so I had normal maid service. I like fresh towels and made beds.

If you leave your DND up, security will come to your room once a day and take a quick visual inspection. Yes, we all know this is mostly 'theater'. If you're there alone and are uncomfortable with people in your room when you're alone, then stand outside the room during the inspection.

Some people aren't happy unless there's drama. I see many people at DEFCON who imagine they're 007 and a host of three letter agencies are interested in them. Good for them! (I suspect Marc Rogers, the DEFCON security person who resigned, simply didn't want to deal with drama anymore when there are real battles to fight.)

For the rest of us, it's a nice convention where we can talk to real engineers and security researchers about problems that affect us.

If the government didn't stand in the way, these 'wealthy' people you hate so much would have built a lot of housing.

No elevator? They're going to get ADA lawsuits before it even opens.

I read the article (I pay for WSJ) and there's one area they didn't mention: books.

I see a lot of books, especially business, productivity, time management books, written by authors who churn out poor quality (but legit, in that they're not filled with nonsense which is another scam) books by the dozens that mostly are the same book but freshened or rearranged. These books are low-cost so I've taken a chance on a few of them.

What made me try them if they have hundreds of legit looking reviews and 4 and 5 star ratings. I imagine there's some sort of "farm" for Amazon self-publishers that does this.

I'd bet that someone in either the legislature or the prison system is getting some "consideration" from the providers of these "free" tablets. Nobody would agree to allow these things otherwise.

I don't think Assemblyman Steve Hawley (R) is being stupid when he's asking "why can't we get "free" tablets for students, too?" I think he's in on it. That's the simplest answer.

Really? You can "understand" why a person, a public figure who runs several large companies, would make baseless accusations against a person he disagrees with, in an attempt to ruin this person for life?

I can't understand that at all.

Well, with all the cancellations, perhaps some of them are thinking this through.

As long as he's not calling you a "pedo". That's pretty terrible in my book.

Many mainstream car companies, particularly GM with its all-electric Chevy Bolt have cars with roughly comparable specs to the Model 3 and you get get one today. The allure of getting something now instead of waiting surely contributes to some of these cancellations.

I'm glad she told the story. When William's death was in the news, everyone was talking about "depression." This really wasn't the full story behind his death.

Here's a take on QWERTY (probably not designed to slow us down) on the Smithsonian website: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-...

The ride was also loaded badly with two very heavy passengers in back — exceeding 600 pounds — and a 65 pound kid in front. They need to enforce weight limits even at the risk of “offending” passengers.

I suspect this is highly inaccurate, but may lead to false arrests in the way that bad "hair sample" science did.

I've run it on port 443 (https port) which makes it possible for me to get through to it from inside many corporate firewalls.