fiberoptick

The perfect example for how bloated, inefficient, and wasteful the bureaucracies of higher education can become.

How did $40m of fraudulent spending go unchecked for literally years? It seems to be that even at the largest private sector organizations this kind of malfeasance would have been caught much sooner.

This could have been an immensely powerful covert communications channel for field operators of military and intelligence services

Well, at companies that actually care about 100% rollout of "corporate, invasive crapware" on computers that _they own_ and that are used to process _company data_ and access _company resources_, the alternative is usually just to ban Linux workstations altogether.

I see this as a strict improvement for adoption of Linux workstations in the corporate world

End of an era...

Are there any viable alternatives to Kubernetes and Nomad?

Copyright law is the basis for the legal enforcement of software licenses. License violations usually get pursued under copyright law

> does not directly answer to any legislative, judicial, or executive authority.

This is patently false. The Securities and Exchange Commission accredits and oversees all national SROs.

Should be corrected to "Vendor-Locks", as well.

Does this defend against any additional attack surface that wasn't already defended by the UEFI Secure Boot standard?

Your comment is technically correct, but misleading.

In fact California specifically does not tax ex-residents for income arising from the disposition of stock acquired with ISOs, which is usually the way pre-IPO employees acquire shares. This is true even if the ISOs were granted for work performed in California.

Bad, in my view. (Although I am not a lawyer, and would definitely appreciate input from one here!)

Hardware offload of a network protocol is an extremely generic concept and this patent seems to describe that concept (without any kind of novel mechanism or implementation details).