…is (among many other things) an IRS assault on low-income people.
Meritocracy Versus Idiocracy
Why China is winning.
Not very encouraging.
De Jure And De Facto Censorship
Why we have to be worried about both.
Piano Problem
We have an older-model electronic Yamaha piano. While I had the living-room wall open for various wire run, I decided to run an RCA cable from the piano location to our home-theater receiver, so we could hear the piano output in the home-theater speakers, instead of the built-in ones.
Lo and behold, though, when I plugged it into the headphone jack on the instrument, there was a distinct delay between hitting the key and hearing the sound, which makes it difficult to play. Why would there be any latency? This seems like it would be a problem using headphones with it as well. It seems like the only solution may be hack into the thing, to tap the speaker wires directly, and match the impedance somehow, maybe with transformers.
21st-Century Problems
Remote hijacking of “smart” sex toys?
The Key To Immortality
As always, I’ll note that I don’t want to be immortal; I just want to live as long as I want to live.
System Engineers
What happens when they don’t negotiate requirements:
Read the thread for other examples.
Disk Disaster Update
So I got the estimate from the recovery company.
The good news: They can recover the files.
The bad news: There will be no directory tree or filenames, just numbered files with extensions.
The worse news: They want a minimum of $1700. That’s if I’m willing to wait weeks. More if I want it sooner, up to five grand$2700.
So have to find another solution. I could probably live without the file names, given that I’m primarily looking for mailboxes, and the virtual Windows machine file.
New NSS Leadership
Congratulations to Anita and Michelle, among others. I worked with Anita at Rockwell for years, and Michelle is my corporate counsel (when I need one).