Theodore Kaczynski was caught because of poor Operational Security (OPSEC). He let his ego get the better of him, delivering a 35,000 word manifesto and insisting that it be made public.

He was caught only because he thought he was smarter than everybody else, leaving clues with each bomb and in his manifesto. Ultimately the Washington Post's publication of his writings caught the eye of researchers, and more importantly, his younger brother David, who turned him in for the $1M reward.

Managing these products with separate OS's and requiring different software for use on both, helps insulate Apple from cannibalization of their own revenue by someone buying an ipad instead of a laptop or vice versa. Part of their pricing strategy with the keyboards & such for ipad is to help ensure price parity between these two platforms, and to disincentize as many as possible from thinking they can get away with just an ipad.

Definitely! Similar vibes to (but pre-dating) Trader Joe's "Fearless Flyer", right down to the cheap paper and retro graphics.

Visiting their original storefront in Chicago was one of my favorite excursions when I was young and in need of science fair inspiration or just "stuff" for one of my personal projects.

Pretty much all the B&M and online surplus electronics stores I used to buy from have faded away or moved to a purely eBay existence.

Generally those traditional crawlers are well-behaved, and will follow the instructions given in robots.txt, though not all follow suggestions like crawl-delay. And if not, they tend to originate from fixed source IP addresses which can be blocked or throttled by the site operator or their CDN.

Back in 2020 IETF released a draft document "RateLimit Header Fields for HTTP" providing rate-limit headers which well-behaved clients should respect.

They seem to be suggesting this is because students from "higher income" families were better able to adjust their behavior to work with the system, including lower absenteeism, turning in assignments on-time, and completing extra credit assignments. Oddly I was one of the lowest income students in my high school, and yet I managed to meet these minimal standards!

Oddly enough, these same behaviors (showing up, on-time-delivery, and going above-and-beyond) are also desirable skills for nearly any employer, thus "Grading for Equity" does a disservice to students by explicitly removing them from the grading equation

Looking at Joe Feldman's defense of GfE, the one thing he seems to get right is his suggestion that a student's grade in a given course should be most influenced by whether she mastered the subject matter at the end than how muchs he struggled with it at the beginning, middle of the term

Mysteriously foreigners with expensive and fine goods will find themselves routinely mugged by peeps with access to this dataâ¦

The median is slightly more meaningful, as you are assured there is at least one sample in your set having that exact value,

They spent around $24.5M on tickets (assuming they were able to keep the 5% sales commission), took home $57.8M (the lump-sum payout of the $95M pool).

If one other person had won each winner would take home $28.9M, still a small net profit.

In college we explored replication the GPS algorithm, your final calculation would always give you two position fixes -- one in space, the other within the earth's atmosphere. Your algorithm would discard the orbital result and return the second answer.

Scratch that, reverse it, and you've got your answer for a lunar fix /s

The reason your self-constructed strawman suggests is just your personal biases showing, not the NRA's. Rather Castile's case and Biden's had one thing in common -- the person at the center of the case was a drug user. Also the NRA rarely has much to say about law enforcement shootings, regardless of the ethnicity of the victim

OTOH, " the 2A crowd" (which is a lot larger than the NRA) did actually have quite a bit to say about Castile and about Hunter, yet were mostly ignored by the major media.

The "free" coffee at my former Fortune-500's office kept declining in quality, at one point our jump server had "ping" aliased to set a payload of 4BAD0FF1CEC0FFEE.

It was almost a relief when they stopped providing free coffee on each floor, instead of taking a 1 minute detour to pour a cup, the whole team would troop down to buy some actually good coffee across the street at Intelligentsia, where sometimes we'd get to chatting with the competition...

For something emergent want to fix right now, like the monthly screeching EAS tones on the radio or closing off the 3-days-dead skunk smell coming in from the "fresh" air vents, I vastly prefer a physical button.

Nothing stops the automaker from also offering voice control as an option, but there are some controls which it just makes sense to have direct hotbutton access.

How much of this animosity towards Carplay is because drivers might actually prefer Rivians user experience, and how much of it is because Rivian is missing out on all that additional monthly Connect+ subscription revenue?

Some things, you really do want a button for. If I'm looking to turn down the radio or turn off the mixing of outside air, I don't want to have a conversation with my car to accomplish those basic tasks.

Ward was a classy and innovative man, and will be missed.

Randy Suess was also a man.