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I now have lots of free time to devote to The Global Computer Industry Index.

My friend Stefan Youngs asked me to volunteer for Aircrew Remembered but I've never really had the headspace for it until just tonight.

I'll tell you the bad news right after I hurl my thousand-dollar iPhone 7 in the Columbia River.

At Portland's 'reparations happy hour,' people of color get $10 and a place to meet

‘Reparations Happy Hour:’ Each minority attendee gets $10 from white Portland donors

People Aren't At All Impressed By This 'Reparations Happy Hour' Where White Donors Gave $10 To Attendees Of Color

‘Reparations Happy Hour’ Invites White People to Pay for Drinks

Event poster.

Alcohol is basically poison. So white people are paying to poison black, brown, and indigenous folks!

Internet Crime Complaint Center.

When I report the CP to anyone - not just the FBI but also deputies from Clark County in Washington and Multnomah County in Oregon - I use my real name, my real home address, my real phone number and my real email.

Both of the deputies were dismayed at what I reported but as we parted they both said "Keep up the good work". I expect lots of others do this kind of "Free Agent" work but I expect most others do so anonymously.

I need to get some ZZZzzzs to have any hope of writing coherently.

It's a dot-com. If nothing else the FBI could seize their domain. But I expect they'd let it continue to operate while they spend some time tracing it to its origins.

It's a large still photo site. Most of the photos are thumbnails from videos, others are "magazine covers" for bundles of sets. Typically each issue has 3000 photos.

Each image is a link to a page that enables one to "join". The actual videos and full issues are available only to members.

I've never registered as a member anywhere, nor have I ever paid for access.

Three or so years ago I reported a .com and a .org domain to the Internet Crime Complaint Center. From time to time I checked them then was dismayed that the sites were still operating. But I checked again just recently. The original sites were gone to be replaced by garden-variety nutritional supplement vendors.

Harvey Weinstein will be charged with rape, source says

Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to the NYPD on Friday morning on charges that he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex on him, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN.

The first-degree and third-degree rape charges are from one case and the first-degree sex act charge is from a second case, according to the source.

Harvey Weinstein to surrender, face criminal charges in N.Y. sexual assault case, sources say

Prosecutors in New York and L.A. have been developing cases against Weinstein, but sources have said for weeks that New York authorities were closest to bringing charges. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were not clear on the scope of the case New York prosecutors plan to file.

The charges would mark a major milestone in the #MeToo movement, which has sparked numerous accusations of misconduct by powerful men in the entertainment and other industries — and numerous criminal investigations, but few actual criminal charges.

[...] According to law enforcement sources, detectives believe that case is promising for prosecution because the woman told her story to three people, including a priest, relatively soon after the alleged attack. LAPD detectives also have obtained bills showing that the woman was a guest at the Beverly Hills hotel where she claims Weinstein attacked her, the sources said. The case does have flaws, they added. Detectives found little physical evidence of an attack and have been unable to secure proof that Weinstein was at the hotel when the woman says the rape occurred.

Cue the inevitable rage when he "gets off".

Updates:

Harvey Weinstein charged with rape following New York arrest

Rose McGowan and Other Harvey Weinstein Accusers React: ‘We Got You’

Harvey Weinstein's arrest is cathartic. But real victory won't be in court

And I don't have the hardware required to reproduce it.

It's a purely cosmetic bug, and a really minor one at that. But my client's sales people feel it is crucially important for me to fix it.

Today I regressed it on a whole bunch of different macOS - the operating system formerly referred to only by Apple employees as "Mac OS Ten" - versions as well as a whole bunch of different boxes.

Late in the day I was delighted to find my email totally spammed full of me adding new regressions to RedMine:

No - 10.12.5 (NNNNN) Late 2019 Mac mini, Model Identifier Mac512k42,1984

The entire company got copied on every single regression I tried, each of which was just one line like the above.

And I can't install El Capitan on an Early 2016 MacBook because El Capitan is from 2015 and so the 2016 on up models won't boot off the installer stick.

Just as I left work I explained what was meant by Model Identifiers and how to... uh... "identify" them - use the System Report button in "About This Mac" then suggested they buy me the correct Model Identifier from Other World Computing.

With a mischevious grin I checked Other World's stock of used MacBooks to find that they had no 2015 MacBooks in stock.

But I did point out that they get new used Macs in all the time.

I'm likely to stay home today but I'll check my email regularly. Somewhere I have an email that links to a couple other reputable used Mac dealers.

Bonita and I developed a really effective budgeting template at first in Quatro Pro, then in Microsoft Office Excel, then in OpenOffice.org and now in LibreOffice but not dot org.

The result of that is that I've already spent More Money Than G-d and as well have spent another five thousand Samoleons.

Sucks To Be Michael David Crawford.

More VRAM and cores, less memory bandwidth:

NVIDIA Officially Launches GeForce GTX 1050 With 3 GB VRAM – Improved Core Specifications Along With A Cut Down Memory Interface

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (3GB) has a 96-bit memory bus

Lars von Trier's 'gross' and 'torturous' film prompts walkout

Provocateur Lars von Trier is under fire again after a screening of his film, The House That Jack Built, prompted dozens to walk out.

Starring Matt Dillon as a serial killer, one reporter, Roger Friedman said it was a "vile movie. Should not have been made. Actors also culpable". Another tweeted: "Gross. Pretentious. Vomitive. Torturous. Pathetic."

Dillon plays an architect who kills several women and children in gruesome fashion. Uma Thurman also stars.

Von Trier had been banned from the festival for seven years for comments he made in a press conference for his sci-fi film Melancholia. The Danish film-maker pushed organisers too far when he said (as a joke it was later assumed) he was a Nazi.

Now, with The House That Jack Built, the offence has gone further - into the throng of the gathered press. In one scene, as the killer Jack mutilates a girlfriend, he says: "Why is it always the man's fault... If you are born male you are born to be guilty. Think of the injustice of that."

IMDB. Film is 2h35m. It doesn't appear to have been widely released, so streaming/downloading it isn't possible yet.

No, Octopuses Don't Come From Outer Space

Disputed study:

Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic? (open, DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.03.004) (DX)

Such a script would ease the burden of implementing a few site-wide changes to The Global Computer Index.

As it stands 319 HTML files need to be revised in one or more of four separate ways.

Simply to contemplate such laborious and tedious work gets down so I focus on the smaller countries first, as well as the countries of whose cities I list only a very few.

I use find to produce a list of all the files that require revision. What I'd like is a script that sorts that into countries - or into US states - that have the fewest cities that require revision.

That won't save me any effort but it will make me far more productive. It's much easier for me to initiate a task if it at least appears to be a small task.

Here's some sample data:

$ find . -name index.html -exec grep -l 'Computer Job' {} \; | grep -v united | tail
./pakistan/rawalpindi/index.html
./philippines/manila/index.html
./poland/gdansk/index.html
./poland/warsaw/index.html
./russia/moscow/index.html
./russia/novosibirsk/novosibirsk/index.html
./russia/tomsk/index.html
./russia/tomsk-oblast/index.html
./serbia/belgrade/index.html
./singapore/index.html

In this list I would start with Singapore then go on to Serbia and the Philippines.

If I only needed to change "Computer Job" to "Computer Industry Job" I would use sed. But sed alone won't do it because I often have to break long lines into smaller chunks so as to make iFone Fanbois happy.

I'm also migrating my entire site to HTML 5 - but many of my as-yet-unrevised pages are _already_ HTML 5 but some get warnings when I validate them.

Some have spelling errors. Some have errors that doubtlessly would lead foreign patriots to undertake a vendetta against me, my male children and all their male children.

So really I do need to at least inspect all 319 candidate files.

I thank you, and your future managers thank you.

Nine-year-old Instagram star Lil Tay’s ‘flexing’ got her mom fired — that’s only the beginning of her reign of terror

"flex" = show off wealth

Jake Paul’s influencer circle begins to crumble as his dad comes aboard