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Comment Re:We work from home (Score 1) 481

I'm 60 and working as a System Administrator at NASA. I would much rather be doing software development, but this is what I could get. My savings are such that I have hopes of retiring early, but a major concern with that would be health care. I'm just not sure that the ACA will be there for me to use when I need it. I think a fair number of us old techies would gladly retire if we could get Medicare at 60, or earlier.

Comment Still have mine (Score 1) 37

I still have my CARDIAC, which stood for CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation. A teacher gave it to me in Junior High, about 1971, and it helped get me interested in computers. I'll have to check out the spreadsheet version.

As an aside, I love old computer names that end in -AC. My Mac Pro is named prozac.

Comment Re:They waited this long because? (Score 5, Interesting) 226

This is not a new policy. The implementation of full disk encryption has been underway for some time. We are doing laptops first, then desktops. The current fire drill is because a laptop with PII was stolen at NASA HQ and it was one that had not yet had full disk encryption installed.

NASA IT staff are as overworked and under appreciated as anywhere. If NASA had wanted full disk encryption done sooner, they could have added the resources to make it happen. And that would have taken resources from missions, like Curiosity and the James Webb telescope. It's all about priorities.

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