I would imagine most Senators have at least two homes:
One in the state they represent, and one in DC where they work.
Most of us don't work hundreds or thousands of miles from our homes for years at a stretch, but Senators do.

Sanders has been representing the people of Vermont since 1991. Where did you think he was going to sleep for the past 30 years, an AirBnB?

username checks out.

Union sysadmin here. Can confirm, life is good.

IIRC, they are trying to get away from re-badging Clevo hardware. They recently built some sort of factory to manufacture some things in house. I saw them on Twitter setting up a powder-coating apparatus.

Uber is a taxi cab company. In what way does this constitute "News for Nerds?"
Are the taxi cabs self-driving Google cars? No.
Are they powered by Dilithium crystals? No.
Does Natalie Portman pour hot grits down her pants in the back seat? No.
Why is this rubbish on the Slashdot?

I took the Windows 2000 and 2003 MCSE tests. There was definitely subnetting involved. Granted, it's been 11 years, but I specifically recall things like "How many hosts can you have on network 10.10.0.0/16, what's the first, last, broadcast IP address" etc. It's not CCNA level stuff, but there's definitely more going on than just memorizing the classes. You needed to know this stuff to setup the RRAS server IIRC.

God damn, /. is getting old.

I think I remember the Ubuntu UK Podcast people saying that they had special permission from Canonical to use the Ubuntu name and logo.

Ah, right you are. I should probably stay away from the computer until I'm fully caffeinated.

Also This. Starling NetBook -- Dual Core Atom N550 @ 1.50 GHz

I got a G tablet for Xmas. I'm in category 2. The out-of-the-box experience is utter shit. I Rooted it, downloaded a custom ROM, and now it's really awesome. It's ridiculously easy to do this.

I'm running TNTlite 4.0, and it's really snappy. It seems like it should be upgradable to Honeycomb when the time comes. It's supposedly possible to run Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried this yet.

When in the Course of dolphin events it becomes necessary for one pod to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the sea, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of dolphinkind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Dolphins are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Herring.

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The history of the Humans is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Waters. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

You just need the right tires to ride in the snow. I ride on carbide studded nokians, haven't fallen down yet.

There is no such thing as private commercial transport. The highways are all built and maintained by the goverment. The airline industry gets "bailed out" with public monies every other day. Airport authorities are not private corporations, either. Saying transport mode X can't "compete" with transport mode Y is just another way of saying that X is less heavily subsidized.

It is trivially easy to read pirated books on Kindle. Not that I have done this, mind you, but I hear that there are websites out there with ebook torrents on them, and there's this program you can get to convert them into a Kindle-readable format.

The Kindle device doesn't require DRM, the Amazon bookstore does. These are two separate things that people seem to keep mixing up.