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I’d guess that a lot of the encrypted systems had a password written on a sticky note on the desk or in the laptop bag. Encryption doesn’t do much unless you take the other sensibl…

No recruiting, I started off by wanting to point out that military lawyers don't "make" captain, they are given that rank to start. Then I realized it sounded like a little like a …

Lawyers can commission directly as captains in the USAF (and probably other branches) as long as they are not too old and can pass the fitness test. I think they also have to have …

Ah, I understand now. Increasing the index of the outer planets is what would make the fit better, and the asteroid belt is a good way to justify it (and happens to be consistent w…

??? Adding a point in between two other points literally can't make something more linear, it can only make it less linear.

You need a system with more than two planets. A system with only two planets is going to be linearly spaced on any type of scale. Once you've filtered out systems with two or fewer…

Additionally, there are some specialist/professional apps that charge quite a bit and they would be screwed by a limit. Example: the iPad is the defacto standard for electronic fli…

The article specifically says the Justice department is dripping the case because they have a new warrant and Microsoft is complying.

While the new law isn't the best, this particular course of action based on the law seems completely reasonable. New law -> new warrant -> no reason to continue wasting government …

Features like being required to delete (actually delete) your information if you request it. Features like being required to show you what they know about you. Once you realize fac…

This is less attractive when you realize that all big companies will have a non-European subsidiary pay a non-European component of facebook for all their advertising needs, which …

Bulldozer and Piledriver worked fine , but never came close to "crushing" Intel's offerings. They were a decent option for specific workloads that only cared about parallel perform…

Except it didn't crush most of Intel's stuff. It had more physical cores but lost in actual performance. That's why Ryzen was such a big deal, it's the first time AMD has been able…

Those have desktop class high TDP CPUs in them. The distinction here is that this is a low(ish) TDP CPU intended for laptops where battery life matters.

You're right, for some reason I was thinking Exynos wasn't ARM based because it wasn't Qualcomm- not sure why. That takes the list of ARM competition down to just the Chinese offer…

Me too, but for a different reason. I feel like many privately held unicorns aren't really worth as much as their last VC investment would imply. If we get more of these companies …

I'll offer a counter opinion. I subscribed to the New Yorker for almost a year. The New Yorker leans hard left politically and it was really tiring. I consider myself a moderate pr…

Being able to go toe to toe with low-power areas says little about being able to compete against full-power areas, and vice versa. Intel is a laughing stock when trying to compete …

Right, but what they've said is "we've lost TM and it's going to deorbit sometime in the future. We'll watch it and keep you posted." Which is all well and good until you realize w…

As signatories of the Outer Space Treaty they should give a heads up to the international community, and are liable for any damage that's caused by this event even if they provide …

I suspect there is some nuance here that needs to be considered and was probably brought up in the numerous court cases regarding dumpster diving. While it's okay to be nervous abo…

A better option is to just own up to being a dumpster diver and look in everybody's trash cans on the street. There's a plausible cover story that you want to maybe get some valuab…

500 is effectively unlimited compared to the 22 GB that AT&T throttles you at on their native plans. My Cox internet also had a 500 GB warning. Plus, Netflix HD streaming is about …

They're separate things. They are multi-function buttons on a throttle or stick. Here's a castle picture in the link below- on the right side of the F-22's throttle you can see a l…

Because a single PE teacher can manage five rotating classes of twenty kids throughout the day. If kids didn't rotate periods, then all 100 kids would take PE at the same time. Tha…