Brad Ackerman

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• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Which leads to a question: do I need to get a SIM card when we get in for my phone? I know it used to be the case that you couldn't use a US SIM.... The question isn't whether...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  While it's referred to as the Security Service, its abbreviation is BSS or SyS for obvious reasons....
• Commented on Upcoming Attractions!
  ₤ should of course be £, because I still have the computer prescription in a box and need to start using those eyeglasses. Also, no DLD in the local bookshop, so they're ordering it. I picked up a copy of...
• Commented on Upcoming Attractions!
  "Basic monthly rate" -- what travesty of a phone is this? An American phone. (Or possibly a Canadian or Japanese one.) Our prices for communications services are horrifically expensive. There are cheaper MVNO providers if you dial down the...
• Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
  A large percentage of the entire federal government is contractor; that's not limited to the intelligence community. The whole related-entity fraud ring seems far too vulnerable to detection. As much as I generally doubt DIA's ability to find their own...
• Commented on Cough Cough
  Surely to lie like a rug should require that one lie competently....
• Commented on Crawling from the wreckage
  I live in Baltimore, and while I much prefer smaller cars I'd consider buying an SUV (crossover or otherwise) for the ground clearance. The crappy roads here even managed to take out my oil pan once....
• Commented on Paging Agent 007
  Regarding Mr. Z's boring venture, the key question seems to be what he knows that Martin Herrenknecht doesn't. Is it really just a matter of the commercial incentives not encouraging more productive TBMs?...
• Commented on Attention Conservation Notice
  The imaging-with-WiFI drones are also being worked on....
• Commented on Rejection Letter
  But AD is just an embrace-and-extend version of Kerberos, isn't it? And Macs can cope with it too (although not as domain controllers). And I've seen plenty of thin clients in NHS hospital reception suites over the past few...
• Commented on Clickbait spasm: 14 gizmos I used in 2015
  The best disk-shredding protocol I've seen—note that those are classified hard drives. Well, were classified hard drives....
• Commented on Clickbait spasm: 14 gizmos I used in 2015
  I'm also on my second ScanSnap, and it's awesome. Overkill for what I use it for, but still a lot less pain than trying to scan paper bills and such with a flatbed....
• Commented on Clickbait spasm: 14 gizmos I used in 2015
  In Australia, JB HiFi does stock the Kobo readers - and amazingly enough, the price less GST is actually less than the US RRP on the Glo HD. (The Aura H2O actually costs less than the US RRP even after...
• Commented on Oh dear
  It's entirely unrelated to the museums you mention, but I suspect you'd like the Buchstabenmuseum....