“It’s true that Michael Jordan, the outsider brought in four years ago to right the foundering Westinghouse Electric Corp., sunk it instead.”

If you have to go through a staffer, you don’t have large enough amounts of money.

You clearly need Hyper-Threading to be able to generate the axis labels in a reasonable amount of time.

The catch is that this whizzbang tech only really comes into play when the CPU is extremely taxed.

I would hope it’s the author confusing, say, an 8087 FPU with “an additional CPU”, but it’s more likely just a lack of relevant subject knowledge...

In the early days of personal computing, if you wanted to speed up your computer you’d add an additional CPU x87 Floating Point Co-Processor, or more RAM.

I can’t believe the lack of media coverage on the BGM.

Pillories of Eternia is certainly my favorite dark He-Man universe reimagining.

Warning: jagged soup can top whistles may lead to Jokerface

“We will eventually develop effective treatments and cures for almost all cancers, but there will never be a singular cancer cure.”

This is one of those cases where the commonality of the word “cancer” is problematic. “Cancer” is a type of disease, and even more specific variations of the term, eg “lung cancer” are still just describing what is essentially a symptom of a specific mutation or set of mutations.

Also, consider that he was most likely the last IT person fired not because he was “the best” (he may or may not have been), but because he was “the cheapest” - which could very easily have a racial component.

“But isn’t it only usable if you don’t get the message? Seems like it’s not designed to be used as an invisible intercept.”

But it is a backdoor, and it could be used by a government-level entity, and in fact may already be used.

In a statement to Kotaku, Razer detailed a $25,000 reward being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the theft of the Project Valerie prototypes.

“Kevin Noonan, a Chicago patent lawyer with the firm McDonnell, Boehnen, Hulbert & Berghoff, said that the battle over stem cell research is a good bell weather for how the CRISPR patent drama will play out.“ 

Theoretically, naming a street after her would fix that

Had an ‘87 300SDL for about a year until I gave it away, was a pretty good car.

Grace Hopper would be another nice choice