We now return you to your regularly-scheduled program platter. Unlike the local Sinclair-owned ABC station. Apparently, Sinclair has no decency.
- So, the military academies may accept the so-called "Classical Learning Test" as part of a candidate's admission package. Somehow, I suspect that text neglects some parts of an education in the Classical Age, so I'm not certain that will be fit for purpose. The academies already have lots of educational blindspots; I'm not sure that encouraging candidates to have even more fits the concept of a citizen-soldier-officer.
- I suppose nobody should be surprised given this Administration's hiring imperatives and screening of acceptable journalists. Not that I've ever seen either of those in action before… oh, wait…
- One might think the current Administration has been inspired by Disney — notwithstanding that Mr Kimmel was/is broadcast on a network subsidiary thereof, and that the current corporation isn't the actual creator. Put that together with largely illogical territorial restrictions and other overclaiming of copyright rights and… it all seems quite usual.†
- Then there's the information-security-system version of a gun-nut slogan:
Security systems don't spill secrets;
People spill secrets.
Schlage didn't produce an "insecure lock" when the resident left a spare key under the flower pot by the front door. Unfortunately, the packaging of passkey systems — and especially the use of "the cloud" and "automatic device synching" — practically suggests that the flowerpot really is the best place to leave your spare key…
† This is probably more about civil procedure (at least in the US) than it is about the true substantive rights at issue. Burdens and types of proof, remedies, and a variety of other considerations put an anvil sufficient to knock Wile E. Coyote into next week on the scales in favor of suing under, or at least including, a copyright-infringement theory. (Oops, wrong studio…)