And the developer fixed the item that the manufacturer broke. If you're going to criminalize fixing broken items then you'll have to criminalize me fixing my car in any way. If I fix my seatbelt latch that is sticky on cold days then does that make me a felon? I sure hope not. Same applies here, this is just fixing a broken device no thanks to the manufacturer bricking it.

Their greatest threat is people in broadcasting used to hearing the full feed including their own voice played in their ears.

The one that the client tells me to use for their project. I lost count how many I've used in the last several weeks.

"But there are some kinks in the armor." Come on, if you're not going to use the actual saying, then don't use it at all. By the context it wouldn't be a slur. Stop with the overly politically correct nonsense. Mod me offtopic if you must.

For free speech or for brand-safe speech. There really isn't much middle ground. Any brand manager at almost any company that advertises will fight like a cornered animal to keep their brand from being associated with anything deemed controversial, unless they happen to be some sort of outlier supporter of your site's general cause, if it has one. But most of the time, once you go down the brand-safe road, you lose.

Governments never seem to be able to attract good talent no matter how much money they are required to spend on it. Government simply does not attract the best and brightest most of the time. I'm also sure that there is nothing buried in here about "information sharing" between state and federal agencies.

I've been getting way more into indie music genres, and by far my most used purchasing platform is now Bandcamp. DRM-free downloads, the ability to preview the entire track or album before buying, stream the purchased music on their mobile app, and the ability to download high-quality AIFF, WAV, FLAC, etc. formats for archivists and packrats like me. Any time I find a piece of music I want to buy, I always check Bandcamp first. iTunes is now my last resort for digital purchase.

The electric utilities have the authority for any new electrical service to say "we will give you this many amps for this size of building". And many of them do just for this reason.

I may be dead wrong on this, but it seems like many of the studies and papers put out today are funded by grants from organizations which often have a (even if subtle) political or ideological agenda. And if the studies they fund support their position, they hand out more grants. If the studies go against it, that university sees its grants from that organization reduced. Perhaps this has an effect on the results of the studies? I'd like to hope not but it seems like anything we think is right is upside down anymore. I haven't looked into this very closely to see if my anecdotal data point is valid, but I'd like to see if anyone can validate it.

Until the network gets in the way of an executive doing something executive-y or costs too much. Then it's right back to status quo.

I am a professional engineer licensed in Oregon. This is very typical for OSBEELS to do. The term "engineer" has very specific legal meaning, and in most states it implies registration and license as a professional engineer. The reason that Oregon and other states vigorously pursue people who claim to be engineers without licensure is to protect the public from those who claim to be engineers but do not have the education or experience to be admitted to the profession. Oregon happens to pursue these types of issues more vigorously than other states I have been licensed in, but this is nothing new. The claim that his first amendment rights are being violated is laughable (but IANAL). He is free to make his case, but he cannot call himself an "engineer" without being licensed.

I've been with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile in the pacific northwest (Washington, Oregon mostly) for the last several years. During that time I have traveled both to the more metropolitan western Oregon and Washington, as well as the more rural eastern sides of the states. AT&T is pretty good around major metros and most semi-rural areas. T-mobile is very spotty outside of the metros and most major interstates, and many rural areas of eastern Washington and Oregon they have zero coverage at all. I've never used Sprint in this area but I don't know anyone who even has Sprint so that should tell you something. Verizon seems to have the best overall coverage in the pacific northwest, especially the more rural areas. Even when really out in the middle of nowhere they always seem to have some coverage to at least get a call out if nothing else. I can't speak for Idaho as I have not traveled in that area in several years. All of the major companies are awful in terms of pricing and customer service when you have a problem, but the best of all of the evils seems to be Verizon in my experience in this region of the US.

Tell me with a straight face that when a surgery robot is doing its work, commanded by a doctor over the internet, that those packets are equal to those of someone watching Netflix. Unintended consequences?

We already know that the NSA flags encrypted traffic as suspicious and keeps it forever. If we assume they have enough computing power to target on a particularly interesting set of data (based on headers and routing info which can't be encrypted or it doesn't work), then how is it much better than having them store your data in the clear?

Yes, way back when I installed Hardy Heron I believe it was, on an older machine, I downloaded an ISO that I burned to a CD, booted up from that, and after a bit of network config, it grabbed all the packages from the internet and installed them. I can't seem to find such an option anymore that is comparable. The closest thing I can find is Netboot install from the internet, which I do not believe is the same.