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You haven't met enough people who are alternatively schooled and/or home-schooled. Plenty of outstanding, high-performers who probably aren't wearing their Homeschooled! arm bands …

This is very good work in this space. Rebirth 338 was the bees knees tipping point for virtual analog on a PC. We have been seeing numerous things that hint at the direction of whe…

Ahhh... the days... I remember fumbling through something very similar to this and the time I spent in MainWndProc once the application became significantly complex could be awfull…

First, I'm all for AI-based transportation solutions, but why does it seem like there aren't nearly enough redundancies being considered? There are just going to be competing propr…

Two things. "Brave" = risk and cost/benefited to death decisions that a bunch of people don't understand Generally speaking... Apple sells iPhones, Microsoft sells software The ove…

If you can garner the votes in the legislature. If a majority of the house files charges, 2/3 of the senate has to vote in favor. The house seems likely, but it will be the drama o…

Well, that's his side of the story. Burning bridges publicly while signalling that you are difficult to work with is a twofer. Classy. Subtle. There are 8 people who have any secon…

If PV wanted their stuff taken seriously at this point, they would always offer full videos for actual journalists to review and edit. They could license the content and amplify th…

I'm not going to get into parsing the video you watched, but the source raises monumental red flags when it comes to any sort of journalistic integrity. Project Veritas is the same…

The author says "hundreds of thousands of letters issued each year"

Anyone have a reference for how NSL's are estimated for the "hundreds of thousands" reference in this article? It seems more like ~20-30k/yr at this point from my cursory search. I…

This was a warning shot to other muni's in NC capable of adding another angle of attack against the entrenched monopolies of internet access there. If Time Warner didn't win this o…

The potential impact of a hacking crime is massive. Millions to billions of dollars and a real impact on people's lives for well over 2-3?! years. If someone suffers identity theft…

Can someone school me in why we don't just throttle login attempts (each fail extends time to next attempt exponentially) and put an attempt cap that requires password reset?

I'd rather they actually mod it so the switch is removed and the circuit hardwired. I imagine someone beating up the "stuck" switch and breaking the circuit/mic altogether.

I have owned multiple pairs, and still use one for my main work. The bass and treble roll-off isn't great for mixing and mastering, but it's a truly great value for the money for m…

Flip the question. Am I being a good developer if I'm not Googling it? You are a creative problem solver. You have to understand your problem and put together a solution. Within de…

Ack. A jittery gif amongst the content. Had to cut out at that point. NPR stations could adapt to the digital shift in content distrubution without a painful disengagement from exi…

This wreaks of elitism. Media is not consumed, nor as influential, as you are suggesting. Never denigrate the intelligence or incentives of others. To dismiss others' intelligence,…

The vendor knows that if someone WANTS a non-windows PC, they are going to be willing to pay more, so the price goes up. They also are implementing a whole new process for a small …

They won't fly off the shelves with all that added, unnecessary weight or cost. Oi vey.

That doesn't sound like the relationship Miguel and Nat have cultivated with .net or MS, and they could have continued on saying "No." Xamarin didn't NEED MS beyond what it already…

Don't bring facts to the piss on Skype party... This is 100% true. I worked at a state university. If someone was running Skype, because of the algorithm for determining such thing…

If one event happens 1B years ago 1B light years away and another event happens at .5B years ago .5B light years away... how would we know there are two events?

I'm a clinical research ex-data-minion. In that research context, it can take teams of 10's to 100's years to establish a usable dataset which can win grant money to both serve pat…