MrMorden

Basic users don't even have to pay, and if you're doing something that requires the paid version you can buy and will benefit from the $300 control surface that also includes a Studio license.

Only a minority of Americans are on a decent ISP, but that's still tens of millions with FTTP.

Backblaze also has data centers in the EU, where most of the population has FTTP and even the people who don't are much less likely to have data caps because the EU is actually pro-competition.

No, but the people operating in Russia like to travel elsewhere, and do.

Also, the US and allies can enforce Russian AML laws as written on paper. If, say, the UK freezes all of Oleg Deripaska's assets there, Vova will absolutely get the message. We're not going to bring down the Russian government with military force for a million different reasons, but doing it with sanctions and prosecution is a totally different story.

There are at least one million people in the US who have more than enough experience for an entry-level cybersecurity position; all they need is a few weeks of training (to start) and an employer that isn't demanding twenty years of experience and a CISSP for $50k with crap healthcare and inadequate PTO.

Also, employees are not some company's property. At-will employment goes two ways, and if you want to treat them as if they were property you may as well just turn off the lights now because it will not end well.

Ser Davos has some thoughts about your comment.

http://gph.is/2vGAqYf

Both face and fingerprint authenticate in under a second on all the machines I use.

If the machine is joined to a domain you'd need to use Hello for Business. It's more involved to set up, but if you've got enough Windows computers to have an AD domain you should definitely do it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-p...

I remember reading that when all OS data cost money half of their income came from other government departments, so once you add dealing with all that licensing there's not much extra cost to just fund it out of general revenue.

Java is still (as I understand it) very much a thing for EMV and possibly other smart-card applications (transport fare media?).

Azure was originally Windows Azure, but that was changed a month after satyan became the CEO.

(MS employee; I work in Azure, but didn't become an MS employee until 2019.)

How is a proxy operator in harm’s way? They aren’t in Iran, and the Iranian government understands the consequences of trying to do anything about it. Users are in no more danger than they’ve always been, and substantially less than if they didn’t have communications ability.

Is there a reason North Korea would be reluctant to sail the seven seas for a copy of Ansys?

Not entirely coincidentally, they've known or should have known for at least that long that putting new workload on Flash would not lead to rising property values in Tokyo. They knew exactly what the consequences would be and did it anyway. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

They can change it to closed source, and anyone can start a closed-source fork. The contributors I know wouldn't stick around after such an event, however.

If that's a problem for you, you could try VyOS (LGPL/GPL2/GPL3 mix) or dnxfirewall (AGPL3).

U-NII, mostly. The drawback from amateur radio or another licensed service is that you won't be able to use anything like the same power output. Whether that works for you depends on your definition of "long distance".

You can absolutely do that, and there are several potential license and license-free options. None of them are amateur radio, however.

If the BLM protestors attempted to storm buildings defended by the federal police that were deployed to those protests, they'd have been mowed down with light machine guns. Had the police not rioted themselves, nothing would have happened even if BLM had come to fight because it would have been abundantly clear that escalation would not lead to rising property values in Tokyo.

The Capitol should have been much better fortified by a much larger force given that the FBI, MPD, and Capitol Police knew or should have known about this plan for months. Had the presence of several hundred officers with multiple layers of fencing and visibly-manned M249 positions not been sufficient to convince their vanguard to run away, they would have been able to escalate to spotlights, LRAD, and less-lethal projectiles before needing to go with the real deal. A suitable amount of publicity for these preparations could very well have resulted in the Q Cucks Klan deciding to find an excuse to either make it a legitimate protest or call the whole thing off.

The deaths would have been at most two or three rioters, and possibly a few who get trampled in the panicked retreat. That would have been a light touch; it accomplishes the objective using a minimum of force, and if they saw reason nobody would even have been scratched. A medium touch would just be shooting anyone who tries to breach the perimeter until they stop trying (which would have been totally legal); a heavy touch would have happened to the BLM protestors if they had escalated to violence.

Kneeling in solidarity with protesters is fine because neither the protestors or the officer are breaking the law or indeed doing anything wrong. Letting an enemy force (and that's absolutely what a crowd of people with unlawfully-possessed guns and Army of Northern Virginia battle flags is) past your position is at a minimum conspiracy to enter and remain in a federal building without authorization.

He'll commit more felonies because criminals can't stop themselves from criming.

Turkey's S-400 system was both contracted for and delivered during the Trump administration. We'll see what the US does or doesn't do when the president isn't the weakest since Harrison.

To the extent that Texas has such a reputation, it's entirely unearned. The state loves sticking its nose into pretty much every area where it doesn't belong; they want to tell you on what days and from whom you can buy groceries; in many fields you're not allowed to start a business without permission from competitors; their gun laws are about as restrictive as they come while still being shall-issue; marijuana and gambling (except for the state-run numbers racket) are still illegal. The city governments of any political leaning aren't any better; Austin still hasn't legalized building housing other than detached single-family in the overwhelming majority of residential-zoned land.

It may have low taxes, but Texas is the furthest thing imaginable from a small-government state.

They couldn't convince developers to publish applications to the Amazon Store, which meant that the device was substantially less useful than a Google Android phone.

Maybe if those contractors are VP level or DINK; a senior IC working for a Beltway bandit might possibly, with a tailwind, clear 200k total compensation, but that's very much the high end of their pay scale despite the hourly rates they charge the government.

Tips being an incentive for good service would violate causality. In reality, waiters get higher tips for being white and attractive, which isn't exactly unexpected given the racist crap mentioned in the article.

The best anti-SLAPP law in the country, no state ban on municipal broadband, no blue laws, allows people who get a JD by remote learning to take the bar exam.

Self-assertions of compliance can be legitimate. To appear on that list they'd need third-party validation of their compliance, which is not the same thing.

It shouldn't; I don't use Google Calendar at the moment but Outlook seems to have no problems with people in multiple time zones all seeing the correct time for a meeting.

I appear to not be the only person who (thinks they) spotted an Apple I callout.

You can always go full there-is-only-Zulu and set the Windows timezone to UTC. (insert head-tapping meme here)

Adjunct administrators.

Yes and yes.

What you're describing is conspiracy to commit embezzlement; everyone who participated in that conspiracy gets a tenured position at Folsom. And why would you close the university? Are you seriously claiming that everyone in management is determined to do everything possible to hand money to criminals?