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martyb writes:Here's an "oldie but goodie" that made a lasting impression on me and I thought others would enjoy it. I still find the writing style to be humorous and engaging. "The Code of Abibarshim" -- which appears at the end of the linked page -- makes excellent recommendations, but I cannot say I entirely agree with all of them. Take the first one, for starters. I sense it is not so much that the name changed but that old names were allowed to persist, unchanged. As long as all instances of the old name are found and updated, I sense there is very little cause for concern. But I've already said too much. Do read the whole article! Why not take a few minutes and enjoy from some light-hearted reading? What did you like? What, if anything, would you recommend changing in his 10 conclusions?Credit: As best I have been able to verify, this was originally credited to Paul Pendragon and published in "Production Engineering", July, 1981.Beware the Wrath of Abibarshim!

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Jeff Bezos' space company is pressuring employees to launch a tourist rocket during the pandemic:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Older people generally more emotionally healthy, better able to resist daily temptations:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:This Xbox creator baked ancient bread with 4,000-year-old-yeast:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Everlane customer experience workers say they were illegally laid off:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:This fingerprint-verified smart lock can be foiled by a magnet:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Amazon executives privately insulted a warehouse worker, then attacked him on Twitter:

takyon writes:Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes

"exec" writes:Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

martyb writes:Typing By Slamming Your Laptop Closed. Repeatedly:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Campus is closed, so college students are rebuilding their schools in Minecraft:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:eBay is waiving seller fees for new businesses to help shuttered retailers move online:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:New York finally legalizes electric bikes and scooters:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Frontier prepares for bankruptcy, regrets failure to install enough fiber:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:$12.8 billion Juul investment broke the law, FTC suit says:

DannyB writes:While this is quasi related to the recent Zoom article on SN, this is mostly about attempting to outlaw End To End Encryption.From TechDirt:

canopic jug writes:Zoom has had a meteoric rise as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. Jitsi and other useful teleconferencing tools are not very well known, though still widely used. Nearly all the buzz has been about the newcomer instead, but few have actually evaluated it. One group has. The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, at the University of Toronto, has investigated Zoom briefly, covering both the technology, especially its lack of encryption, and the company itself:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:'The phone slipped into the bath': Conference call tales:

"exec" writes:Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

This story is a merge of 26 story submissions.[* See Note] Given that it was well over 18,000 words of original source material (excluding HTML markup!), a great deal of pruning was performed to get it to a manageable size. We strongly encourage folks to read the linked articles for more information.For latest statistics, and finer granularity, see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ or https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6.

An Anonymous Coward writes:Mozilla has released Firefox 74.0.1 and ESR 68.6.1 which include fixes to two exploits which are being used in targeted attacks.The Release Notes, list two security vulnerabilities. The defects have been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures IDs: CVE-2017-6819 and CVE-2020-6819.Mozilla's release notes state:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny:Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom - Schneier on Security:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:The FCC sets a vote for expanding Wi-Fi into the 6GHz band:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/04/tesla-beats-expectations-with-strong-first-quarter-delivery-numbers/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Automated tool can find 100 Zoom meeting IDs per hour:

hubie writes:One of the primary drivers for the distinct lack of a Martian atmosphere is believed to be the loss of atmospheric molecules that are stripped away by the passing solar wind. A strong planetary magnetic field would divert the solar wind around the planet and protect the Martian atmosphere. The MAVEN spacecraft confirmed this is happening, and some interesting ideas have been floated to mitigate the effect.A recent paper published in JGR: Space Physics used Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models to investigate the magnitude of the effect on atmospheric retention that a magnetic field would have on Mars and found a very interesting result. Their models confirmed that the rate of atmospheric loss was six times higher for a planet with no magnetic field compared to a planet with a strong magnetic field; however, they found the highest rate of atmospheric loss was actually when there was a weak magnetic field.

takyon writes:SK Hynix: Up to DDR5-8400 at 1.1 Volts

DannyB writes:SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test

DannyB wrote in with a submission which inspired:EU Says That, No, Rental Car Companies Don't Need To Pay A License To Rent Cars With Radios That Might Play Music:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:How to make your own yeast for baking:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.livescience.com/ancient-rainforest-antarctica.html

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:T-Mobile, Sprint took a risk by finishing merger without Calif. approval:

Fnord666 writes:MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs[:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:[Editor's note: SN3 is SpaceX parlance for "Serial Number 3"; Elon Musk is not just working on building rockets, he's building an assembly line and plans to build one Starship a week. This helps explain the use of serial numbers. --martyb]

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Google's WaveNetEQ fills in speech gaps during Duo calls:

DannyB writes:NASA brings back its iconic 'worm' logo for upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon launch:

DannyB writes:Apple buys Dark Sky weather app and shuts down the Android version, will also end API access for other apps that use it

DannyB writes:The Register:

DannyB writes:The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online:

DannyB writes:Elon Musk's SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns-memo

DannyB writes:Open Access to ACM[*] Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic:

takyon writes:Samsung to Cease Traditional LCD Production, Move To Quantum Dot OLEDs

takyon writes:Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 W Notebooks: Up to 5.3 GHz*

Microsoft Cheers, ACLU Jeers Washington State Law Restricting Use of Facial Recognition Softwareupstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Microsoft cheers, ACLU jeers law restricting use of facial-recognition technology:

takyon writes:NVIDIA's 2020 Laptop Refresh: Launches GeForce RTX 2080 Super, 2070 Super, & GTX 1650 Ti

Millions of Guests Impacted in Marriott Data Breach, Againupstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Millions of Guests Impacted in Marriott Data Breach, Again:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story: