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If the leadership was mature and introspective enough to do that these problems wouldn't exist.

On a modern naval vessel if you lose all the electronics the ship is going to be drifting anyway. Still it seems smart to keep the skill around as the GPS system can be locally jam…

Most motherboards still prioritize floppy drives when it comes to boot order. The early viruses were transmitted by floppies. I also wouldn't trust a floppy controller's firmware a…

Only HTTP is text based. TCP, IP, and link-layer protocols are binary. HTTP is text based because it is a protocol for transferring (hyper)text and so was intended to be human read…

Solitary confinement isn't just a single occupancy cell. Generally it means a cell where the prisoner is isolated from other prisoners. What drives people crazy is not even being a…

Solitary doesn't just mean single occupancy cells, it means separation from most human contact. They could easily have groups of cells where inmates are confined individually but c…

The reason there is so much interference on WiFi channels is because there is little regulation within the assigned frequencies. People playing around with unlocked SDRs is not eve…

Could be a ploy like how many scammers use poor spelling and grammar so that they don't waste their time chasing up people too smart to fall for the scam. Except it is if you are r…

>I'm guessing that the intersection of "administrative personnel", "willing to carry pagers" and "understand the internals of AWS services" is a very small set Being a non-engineer…

Amazon isn't a couple of guys in a garage. They have hordes of administrative personnel who could be tasked to update a status page. Companies 1/1000th the size of Amazon can manag…

What's the power cost per year compared to modern stuff?

> At the same time, a lot of people never gave G+ a chance, because they felt Google already had too much power. It felt like giving Google the "missing link". At least, that is my…

They can try if they want but it will cost them lots of money for no benefit.

>It's sandboxed and not able to do anything - malicious of not - outside it's restricted environment. That argument is like the one that Linux is more secure because a malicious pr…

You are forgetting that Google effectively has two groups of "consumers". Ordinary users who use their products, and companies that advertise using Google's products. Even if ordin…

Large telecom companies ran a fairly effective campaign confusing people about what net neutrality was actually about. I've heard all kinds of silly things like net neutrality woul…

I think the point was that current hiring practices filter out many autistic people due to the behavioral testing. Currently autistic people generally have to be good enough at soc…

I know what you mean. I have a friend who is autistic and he is probably about average in intelligence. That is a bad place to be for someone with autism as the behavioral issues m…

I don't think that is a fair comparison. The 386 was a true CISC design while the ARM2 was RISC. One of the major points of RISC was to reduce silicon complexity by using a less co…

I can imagine all the people complaining about how they have been waiting for three hours for an Amazon drone delivery while a hurricane rages on outside.

So you don't actually have the conviction to refuse to pay the criminals? If you really believed what you are saying you would move to another country and give up your US citizensh…

>Except there's no provable way to distinguish between "attack traffic" and normal traffic. Depends on the DDOS method used. Stuff like the NTP abuse of a few years ago could be si…

And your alternative option is? Do you still pay your taxes? Because with the way you talk I would call you a huge hypocrite if you did.

Congratulations you have re-invented slums!

I think that was sarcasm.