This is one of the hardest problems in computer science: getting names right.

Should it be called WOPR or skynet?

The problem with powerful surveillance technology is not with capturing criminals under current definitions of criminality. The power of ubiquitous surveillance accelerates a society's transition to authoritarianism.

The problem is that increasingly authoritarian societies have a tendency to criminalize formerly legal reasonable behavior, tightening their control over their livesto^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcitizens long after events have been recorded and saved.

In a rational world, using surveillance technology could *under strictly limited controls* be beneficial. Humans have a nearly perfect record of allowing extremely irrational psychotic freaks to take power where that power can be wielded without sufficiently tight controls.

One other aspect of this is modern production regarding mixing and mastering. Music is pushed so far to the edge that drums are basically cut off at the high end and the whole thing sounds mushy.

My wife, who knows nothing about any of this beyond enjoying music, asked me one evening while we were listening to "Fat Bottomed Girls" why the drums sound so good compared to other music that we listen to. It's noticeable.

Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..

And, yet, you also use their products daily but want to have no personal responsibility for that.

do any of your three new members understand percentages?

We have "free college" in Tennessee and I believe in Kentucky as well. Most kids still opt for the "big university" experience, but you can become a nurse or teacher in Tennessee without having to pay anything.

Nope. That's why I changed all my players to BlueOS.

If they cared about "high-quality" they would have ditched Yelp years ago.

I replaced all my SONOS connects with BlueSound node Nano devices. A pricey replacement, but worth it.

As a bonus I was now able to turn off SMB1 on my home Samba server !

That itty-bitty asterisk is carrying a lot of weight.

I wonder if any betting sites have set up a pool for this project?

FYI, it would be wonderful if true. I just do not believe it, being of the generation that knew "fusion is only 30 years away and always will be".

> Every large NAS vendor (Synology, QNAP, etc) has their own SMB server they wrote themserlves

That's untrue. Both Synology and QNAP use Samba. QNAP contributes code and bugfixes back to samba.org (Hi Jones !).

In his younger days, he tied his "philanthropic" giving to other countries to their use of Microsoft products.