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Seems oddly low. I know the US is notorious for low speeds, but 3.35 Mbps for Google fiber? Does their measurement actually measure what I intuitively think measures?

I've used two different ISPs in recent years and both sustained 10+ Mbps over long periods of time with their mid range tiers, and had basic tiers offering 3 - 5 Mbps which I believe performed as rated.

While I know that most of the country is likely on slow Internet, I have a really hard time seeing how the numbers end up lower than ~5 Mbps avg overall unless the whole situation is way worse than I ever suspected and that large portions of the sample were either mobile users or rural.

When I've been involved with a public university there are lots of disclaimers and notices that stuff done via University email is not private and isn't subject to requirements for a warrant should the institution want to review it, etc.

However, I would expect that Harvard, being a private institution, and desiring to make its faculty members feel secure, would adopt a standard that's more stringent with respect to institutional access, and that its members, feeling that they're part of the good ol' Harvard crew would feel as though there were an additional informal standard layered on top of any official policy.

In any case, I don't think public or private institutions are likely to treat email at all like private enterprises, and I'm not sure why one would think that is so.

Probably people buying from their Android devices being counted under the 'Linux' flag?

...on the other hand nothing is patent free these days. If the diaphragm were invented today we'd all be getting our lungs ripped out for patent infringement.

I agree with. The only problems I've ever had with it have turned out to either be problems with the actual hardware or problems with the clients, not problems with Pulse Itself.

I will admit having a lot of a hate for figuring out which audio 'profile' is which...

If you've got the plugs for 7.1 and a normal line in as well as possibly a digital one, they you've probably got 23 choices of profile for your built in audio device. Add in a GPU with HDMI and the NVIDIA driver and you probably get at least another 7+ choices all labeled Nvidia... I find I frequently have to guess multiple times whenever I hook up a TV via HDMI.

But it works quite well if you define works as works without adding on any usability riders.

Personally, I think the 'no sales' thing could have worked if their prices were lower. The couple of times I've been in a JCPenney since this started everything was depressingly expensive for what it was.

It's one thing to not discount, but it's another to not discount while selling a commodity product for 2x or 3x it's actual value or reasonabl price.

Likewise, I'll concur that the stores still have aesthetic, layout and lighting issues which are getting ignored.

If they had gone for a GAP-like store aesthetic with prices between ROSS and Target with a no-discount policy, I think they'd have not had the same problems.

So I'll agree with many of the commentators that several of the practices suggested aren't 'ideal.' However, they are easy and possibly better than having no 'practice' at all.

Just as an example, the shared user account with unique SSH keys per user. Sure, it's obnoxious in some respects, but many of the criticisms I'm reading in the comments like "but they could reinstate their access with a cron job that re-adds their key when they leave" and such are silly - presumably those who are using the shared account are developers/sysadmins with sudo privileges. Regardless of whether they have a shared account they have privileges to do whatever they feel like to the systems in question. Hence I'd argue it's a fairly reasonable solution for the situation when you don't have the time/resources to configure something more complex and you have to trust all parties anyway.

I think there are two larger takeaways:

First - Managing multiple users across many servers and dev systems is not easy enough, particularly for smaller organizations, and only gets worse when you try to get more granular about who can do what.

Second - umm... no idea anymore. Forgot what was second. Automation is good?

I only play one or two games from most of the bundles, though every bundle I've gotten has had one or two that made it worth it. And like most other Linux users I've usually paid around $10. But I haven't bought any bundle that didn't have at least a game or two that I knew I'd actually play a bit.

I think it's more likely that Linux will end up having a small performance benefit over Windows all other things being equal.

Do the videos work? Did you follow the 'special' instructions to install the 'special' version of Flash that will work with Steam? Because I sure didn't, and so no videos in the Steam client play. Though that's probably even worse than being 32-bit specific.

I can't use vim effectively because I constantly try to navigate using WASD.

I know I can bind it, but the thought of rebinding every command and then being dependent on towing the configuration to every computer I'd ever use scares me.

So I use it on occasion with the same artfulness as someone on crutches trying to dance.

Maybe someday someone will default an 'FPS' control layout.

I mostly remember college careers fairs as a place where big companies tried to get you to apply for their internships.

Microsoft and Google and such usually had their own separate events, and I'll grant they were more serious about hiring people, though they mostly seemed to hire people who'd already been their interns.

Nope, because mega-corps only do internships or '3-5 years' experience.

I really think that this game could use some people from the demoscene to create emergent algorithmic graphics for it. It seems like it'd be a good match.