Clearly some techbro wants to monetize buzzwords plus laptop.

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They still haven’t proven the boat had drugs, or have they?

Just wait until buggy malware worms its way into these things and the screen just shows kernel panics in an infinite loop.

Edit: or worse, somebody hacks it to play random hardcore porn videos.

IT professional for 20 years. C/C++ developer for 10 years prior to that.

My first job out of college was mostly luck. I took a job doing tech support but after a couple of years was able to transition into development work.

Virtually every job since that first one has been thanks to connections I made among coworkers. I got my current job because I knew two employees here. One of them was a co-founder of the company, and somebody I’ve known since the 1990’s and worked with at 3 other companies prior to this.

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Not to mention that it’s trivial to change your IP on most cloud providers. So if a VPN provider is using a cloud service for some of its gateways then it can quickly remember them if necessary.

Companies like Akamai already do this to an extent. My employer is an Akamai customer, and they’ve offered this service to us in the past when we saw a lot of malicious traffic originating from commercial VPN providers.

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Good. The more the Republican voting block is fractured the better.

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Reminds me a bit of Theranos. “Pay no attention to the man (or woman) behind the curtain”…

Does anybody else miss Compuserve, Delphi, etc?

Gary Plauche is another person who took justice into his own hands over the kidnapping and rape of his son back in the 1980s.

Plauche learned that the suspect was being flown back to town in police custody, and figured out the flight he was on. He waited at the airport, pretending to be using a pay phone. As the suspect was escorted past him he walked up and shot him in the head at almost point blank range. A local TV station caught it all on camera and I think you can still find it if you search for it.

Plauche was ultimately convicted of manslaughter but was given a suspended sentence, probation, and community service. No jail time.

Patel wants to keep using FBI coffers for perks though. He’s reportedly flying all over the place on FBI jets, made an FBI SWAT team act as a security detail for his girlfriend, etc.

Yeah, but glassware sent through the US Postal System has a tendency to break. And I’ve received both letters and packages from the USPS that were seriously mangled.

Kaczynski was meticulous with the construction of his bombs to make sure they didn’t detonate accidentally. One researcher stated that he had an “obsession with wood”, and the FBI even created a reproduction of one of his bombs for a museum that was housed in a wooden box inside corrugated cardboard to make it look like a more typical cardboard package.

I managed a research cluster for a university for about 10 years. The hardware was largely commodity and not specialized. Unless you call nVidia GPU’s or InfiniBand “specialized”. Linux was the obvious choice because many cluster-aware applications, both open source and commercial, run on Linux.

We even went so far as to integrate the cluster with CERN’s ATLAS grid to share data and compute power for analyzing ATLAS data from the LHC. Virtually all the other grid clusters ran Linux, so that made it much easier to add our cluster to its distributed environment.

20 years ago I worked on the top floor of a 5 story office building. We wanted to build out a server room with a pretty hefty UPS for backup. The amount of steel reinforcement we had to install in the ceiling of the 4th floor was pretty insane…