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US Agencies don't need a Constitutional Amendment to come into existence - the usual method is simply a law that Congress passes that the President then signs. E.g. Dept of Energy,…

Huh? Stocks (shares) were invented to raise capital for businesses.

There probably are beneficial areas to reduce grocery plastic, but some of that plastic packaging is how/why food stays fresh on shelves longer. Cutting that back means increasing …

Someone with a masters in education may or may not have the knowledge required for a particular subject, say a math or science. Or another way, just because someone has a masters i…

Well, the more difficult/specialized the subject, the fewer available teachers. Plus, someone that knows calculus well enough to teach it likely has other job prospects (competitiv…

>The 17th amendment[1] is another, which allowed for the direct election (and thus hyper politicization) of Senators. The time before the 17th Amendment wasn't exactly all roses, t…

If you take into account inflation, there is an argument for previous heists being larger... IIRC. Check out http://nosygamer.blogspot.com/2017/09/did-judge-really-pull-...

I switched from UE to ST entirely because of UE's licensing/activation model. Maybe it is different now, but UE used to require an internet connection for the registration... or yo…

Same here. I'm on Facebook because of events. Years ago, a club I was in was using Yahoo Groups, and over time more and more events were posted to Facebook. People complained, and …

Their budget is sizeable but less than the annual profits of Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. And NSA pays for tons of stuff that those corporations don't have to deal with like havi…

Defense may be the only game worth playing, but how will that work? Unlike the real military where civilians simply don't own the hardware, in computer security they do. NSA isn't …

Call them "bugchecks" instead - that's the actual Windows kernel API that produces these blue/red/green/whatever-color screens: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/har…

Whatever logic currently used to print the 'Use quit() or Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit' message could also... quit the REPL in the first place, right? I don't program Python much but…

No kidding. What about US customers that want "to manage all telemetry and updates"?

You could say the same thing about chat apps (What's App) and picture sharing (Instagram)... >Is there much left? You might want to look at the Netflix tech blog - lots of interest…

So: A makes a product with flaws, B makes an exploit, C leaks that exploit, D adds a harmful payload to the exploit and goes on to extort/profit from E, who has computers systems t…

>infix operators do have upsides What you are also glossing over are the precedence rules for operators. In this case it works in favor of your point and LISP indeed needs more par…

Not sure it is the same game, but I played one my Apple //e in that era, named Telengard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telengard ). I remember doing exactly as you describe: tele…

>Really free markets would have solved this. How do you figure that? Wouldn't a free market solution require United to honor its contracts and the legal system in the first place? …

Others have mentioned games... plenty of those. I have some minor apps I run like Zone Five Software's "Sports Tracks" (exercise logger), gaming helper utilities, etc.

> * Greater than: 8 -gt 6 ( why isn't this 8 > 6 ?) Wouldn't that be ambiguous with ">" when used for redirecting IO?

So basically your perception is that an insider with access (Snowden, Manning) can leak more info than hackers? That's the most obvious and difficult security threat anywhere, some…

You assume incorrectly and should read the Information Assurance section on their page: "NSA to secure National Security Systems, which includes systems that handle classified info…

Windows support for the touch bar gizmo will depend on Apple updating their bootcamp drivers. As for Linux... I guess somebody will need to reverse engineer and write a driver for …

>Being required to use my pinky to try and hit CTRL I use Windows, OSX, and Linux fairly often (mostly Windows, then OSX, Linux here and there). For me, the most frustrating thing …