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  1. The first flight I ever took as a kid was when I was 6 years old. Back during Eisenhower's presidency. Years later my parents told me that when they purchased my ticket, the airline asked if I was well behaved. They reserved the right to refuse to carry small children due to the 'discomfort' that they might cause other passengers. I was OK and got to spend 10 minutes in the cockpit during the flight.

    [Sigh] Those were the good old days.

  2. Re:This justifies the Revolutionary War on UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook subscribers will rise up

    As long as that doesn't literally mean climbing the stairs out of their mother's basement.

  3. They need to sequence the genes of this virus and compare them to those found around Berkley and the University of Washington. It would be interesting to see how varied the different strains of socialism are in varied environments.

  4. Wise people could change their minds;

    So, nuclear is back on the table?

  5. This constitutes prior restraint of free speech. Because some subsequent damage might occur, you can't speak. Since this only applies to government censorship, the MPAA will be using some round about methods to get ISPs to 'voluntarily' comply with their wishes.

    In addition, hosting providers should not challenge suspension court orders

    This is really where they step over the line. An ISP defending their customer in an appeal of a questionable order is their right. What the MPAA is doing essentially is threatening witnesses. Their mob roots are showing be even thinking demanding this.

  6. Re:Still used in Education (Elementary Level) on The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    How many analog lines are analog past the central office? None, I'd guess. In fact, not many are analog more than a few hundred yards down the road to a neighborhood interface cabinet.

  7. Re:Facsimile: authentication. on The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This.

    My broker (stock, not pawn) e-mails me PDFs of forms for signature. Most of the time, I sign it and scan/e-mail the signed copy back. On rare occasions, they want a wet-signed copy. Signed with blue ink, so it's evident that it's a real signature instead of Photoshopped. Those have to go back via snail-mail.

  8. Re:Still used in Education (Elementary Level) on The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Some crook in a basement in Uzbekistan can't really easily hack the fax circuit.

    Since most telephony is now over IP; Yes, they can.

  9. Re:Simplicity on The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    so why not fax?

    Because it ties up a phone line for minutes per page. And given the dearth of land lines, the one I have left has better uses.

    If I scan it and send it off attached to an e-mail, that happens in the background on decent broadband. It doesn't even interfere with my VoIP 'land line'. Attach a read receipt and it's pretty robust as well.

  10. We have a few tricks up our sleeve. Seed the upper atmosphere with sulfates, dump iron in the ocean to increase carbon sequestration, feed seaweed to cows, replace CO2 producing power generation with nuclear?

    No? Doesn't fit some preconceived agenda? Then global warming must not be that important if we are throwing options off the table that lightly. Come back when it's a problem.

  11. Re:Scaremongering much? on New Linux Crypto-miner Steals Your Root Password and Disables Your Antivirus (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I get damned suspicious whenever something prompts me for a password on another machine. I don't share authorization keys (allowing password prompt bypass) between any machines other then a few of my own. And the effort needed to infect any of those is equivalent to that needed to infect my local machine.

  12. Re:Tenuous connections here... on Amazon Rainforest Deforestation 'Worst in 10 Years', Says Brazil (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If Trump can claim credit for economic recovery under Obama ....

  13. ... that this new rule:

    would like to make immigrants submit their credit scores

    ... is nothing more than some procedures to comply with GDPR. Users of personal data will have to demonstrate some sort of affirmative permission before accessing it. In the past, there was probably some language buried in immigration applications allowing such record access. But now DHS will probably need an explicit check mark from the applicant stating 'I Agree'.

    If this is the case, it's not that big a deal. DHS (and other US agencies) have been rooting through foreigners records for for years. And once these people are in and under US legal jurisdiction, they fall under US privacy laws. Which is to say that our government can look at anything they damned well please. Welcome to America!

  14. ... the Concorde. With high sulfur fuel.

  15. Re:Commercial networks ... on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    First, that's a pretty big assumption. And if true, then what good would securing the middle of the network be? (the place you'd find the Huawei equipment.)

  16. Commercial networks ... on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ... should be considered to be compromised. No matter who's hardware they use. If your telecommunications need to be secure, you need to encrypt/decrypt it before it touches these networks. Because you never know who's hardware is connected to that network.

  17. Re:Rooibos Tea on Decaf Tea Found In The Wild (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not tea.

    But then is Hongyacha tea?

  18. What about ... on The Mystery Font That Took Over New York (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ... Gangland Tagz Bold?

  19. Rooibos Tea on Decaf Tea Found In The Wild (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    No caffeine. Discovered several hundred years ago.

  20. Re:Fall of the Romaine Empire on CDC: Do Not Eat Any Romaine Lettuce Until Further Notice (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The local restaurants' Caesar salads are so small I coulda' et tu.

  21. It won't ... on Amazon is Teaching Alexa To Speak Like a Newscaster (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ... sound like an authentic national newscaster until it completely miss pronounces Puyallup.

  22. New England doesn't need a hub

    Nobody is going to use New England as a hub for anything. It's either a start or end point for shipping. And if the weather there goes to hell, there is no way to route around it. Your mail/packages will just have to wait. Unless your alternative is to load them on dog sleds.

  23. Re:Not for long on The 'Neo-Banks' Are Finally Having Their Moment (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It means banking with a foreign bank. Like ING, Deutsche Bank, Toronto Dominion, etc. It's what a lot of businesses did when the US banking system seized up in 2008. Until the US threatened to audit any foreign bank with an American customer until they screamed and cried 'Uncle'.

  24. ... not using a shipping hub with shitty weather like Denver? Fly in and out of places like Nevada or New Mexico instead.

  25. ... the carriers to share in the profits (i.e. take a cut) of telemarketing messaging revenue.