Also, Rte. 28, along the Fairfax/Loudoun county border has a natural gas pipeline running under it, installed during the 2005-2012 period. There are a number of data centers and office buildings there with generators, including one with five or six at least as large as a diesel locomotive.

I'm trying to figure out how it's going to be a Good Thing for the phone to lock as soon as I put it to my ear and my face disappears from the camera's view.

If banning cellphones simply means asking the audience to leave the things in their pocket(book), then I'm all for it. This works well at the movie theater. But if banning cellphones means I've got to leave my phone in the car (or at home, if I take public transit), then hell no.

Track him down? I would use the forgot password feature to login and delete the account.

TFA also says, in the quotation from the Evernote privacy policy, that customers can turn off the machine learning that is the reason for the employee access by disabling it in the account settings. I just did that with no problem at all.

If one is serious about security, though, then why would he/she trust any cloud provider's encryption?

I really hate it when the news articles about this kind of crap come out after the request for comment period has expired.

That was my reaction, too.

It might not be such a bad thing if Gawker were put out of business. I had never heard of Gawker until I read How Gawker Ripped Off My Newspaper Story seven years ago. Who needs to read the story from its original source when Gawker has published a digest? And this has helped put local newspapers on their back.

Of course, this isn't a lot different from a SLAPP, so it is troubling. The funny thing is that most litigation is supposedly about "being made whole", and our court system evaluates wholeness in dollars and cents, but Thiel seems to want wholeness in destroying the organization that outed him.

Why the hell is NYC allowing people to park in front of sidewalk ramps? I'm not sure how it is in the Big Apple, but most jurisdictions do not mark crosswalks at every crosswalk, even though it's a logical and safe place for a person to cross the street, like a street corner. (This is why one should be suspicious when reading about an accident in which "the victim was not in a crosswalk"; odds are decent that it's because there are insufficient pedestrian accommodations on the road.) If it's OK for an able-bodied pedestrian to cross somewhere, there should be curb cuts so that a person in a wheelchair can do the same, and there shouldn't be a vehicle blocking it.

Is it ageism when the interviewer remarks "You're a little old" during the interview? This happened to me when I was 40 and still had hair, none of it gray. No offer was forthcoming, but the place didn't rate very highly from my perspective, either. And then there was the letter I received recently from EEO investigating a complaint about a company that hadn't bothered to have me come in after the phone interview despite my having all of the skills they seemed to be seeking.

Now I work for a small company where I am probably the oldest employee., but we all get along well, and I'm having the time of my life.

YMMV with the tablet. I own an Asus tablet that consistently loses a lot of time even though NTP is enabled. I know that NTP isn't blocked because unchecking the "Set time automatically" box and then rechecking it brings the thing into synchronization right away.

I haven't tried to use the cookie prompts for quite some time, but the basic functionality still seems to be intact in the preferences under Linux.

Not me. I asked myself why WebMD was being operated, and I figured that anything I searched for was going to end up in Google or somewhere like that.

Finding a new job where it's OK to read some Slashdot from time to time would be nice.

May you find yourself five years down the road looking back on these times as unpleasant but in the past. Good luck to you.