Our current cat will jump onto and walk across a hot stove for roast beef. And the dog will do anything for salmon.

As someone who provides IT support to a fairly significant law firm with headquarters in New York, I feel obligated to point out that the Bar Association ethics rules requires attorneys to "understand the technology they use". Admitting you didn't isn't a good look.

There are at least 101, apparently.

I already pay Spectrum $79.99/mo for 200Mbps. And that's AFTER they "upgraded my service for free". If they'd like to roll that 300Mbps out to me, I'd be glad to take it.

Yes. I think ANYONE should be allowed to read whatever they want. I read Homer when I was a child. My parents never kept any of their novels tucked away from reach. As a child who was often ill, I read an entire set of encyclopedias from A to Z. I will never stand in the way of someone reading something they choose to, but I will loudly protest someone being forced to read something.

When going into an area that I've never been I study the maps extensively, in an effort to become roughly familiar with the area before leaving. If there's time enough, I'm likely to spend a few hours a day for a week preparing. And then I rely on the audio cues from my GPS to assist in finding the landmarks and intersections that I've memorized.

I recently started working for a new company; it's located in the city where I grew up, and despite the city having changed drastically, I didn't need to study maps to know where to go, nor my GPS; but when describing to my girlfriend where the office is located, I found myself at a loss: despite having taken her into the area countless times (some of our favourite restaurants are within just a couple of blocks of my office!), she was unable to understand where it was until I physically took her to the location and said "There, on the fourth floor."

Also a New Yorker. They already record my odometer reading when I get my annual inspection, and I have long anticipated that the goal was specifically to issue a tax based on miles driven/year. And since our inspection certificate is also tied to our vehicle registration, which also records the vehicle's weight, I'd not be surprised to see it snuck into registration fees. Given that it's NY, I'd be more shocked if it wasn't billed as both part of the inspection AND the registration.

I ran into this situation a few years ago: purchased a one year subscription to a service, wasn't keen on renewing it, so when the card expired, I didn't think anything of it...until I was repeatedly emailed and phoned by the company with pleas to update my payment method so they could "re-enable" my subscription. I politely declined, noting that I didn't want to continue. Company turned my account over to collections. I explained to the collections agent that I wouldn't be forced into paying for services I never received (the subscription had been cancelled for nonpayment), and that was the last I heard from the collections agency. The company issuing the subscription, however, has blacklisted both my email address and card number (all that changed was the expiration and CVV) from being used for any of their services.

And yet, you need to know that the car won't work without fuel; likewise, you have to present a token to demonstrate that you're authorized to use the car (i.e., it won't start without a key).

If you want a world where people learn to take cybersecurity seriously, you have to create that world. If the school district sets up its own cryptocurrency that students can use to purchase snacks or school supplies or somesuch, it will lay the groundwork for that kind of world. If you want a kid to learn in a hurry that sharing accounts with someone else is a bad idea, make it so that if they share an account with someone else, they stand the chance of losing their ice cream money.

You already do pay New York tax on a vehicle purchased out of state that's being registered in state. It's a use tax instead of a sales tax, but sure adds up the same.

In 1998 I wrote a couple of programs in Basic for my TI-83 to handle Calculus functions that were tedious to work out by hand. I learned a lot about the math involved, and about programming concepts that I hadn't previously used often.

I couldn't agree with the sentiment more. I'm scheduled to finally get surgery on Monday, after having been told that even though I needed it, no one would perform the operation during the height of the pandemic, especially on someone already immunocompromised.

I've had it happen on AT&T with Android phones. The customer service rep said it had something to do with all voicemail traffic needing to go through their cellular network.

And, frankly, some mobile apps are just more pleasing to the eye than their desktop counterparts. There's at least one that I use regularly whose graphics are far superior on my phone, but the desktop version has the added features that I need usually every two or three days.

I look forward to seeing what this can bring.

Falling from windows was a bit of an epidemic in Russia recently.