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A team of scientists in the US is calling for the return of Pluto‘s planetary status. We're going to need a bigger mneumonic
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About time...
I am 16 right...
I know I am not supposed to feel old but...
that would put me being born in 2005...
I was born when Pluto was still a planet the first time.
DAMN YOU MICHAEL E. BROWN!!! 
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While including large moons is a maximally expansive definition, as I've said every time this discussion comes up from a scientific (vs sentimental) standpoint you can't write a definition for planets that doesn't either exclude Pluto or include at least a few dozen of the other largest asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday asked AT&T and Verizon Communications to delay the planned Jan. 5 introduction of new 5G wireless service over aviation safety concerns. Do the planes need extra lift to deal with the extra G?
Lame physics joke, sorry.
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In the following, I will show examples of non-productive programmers (NPPs), how to detect them, what are their characteristics and how to pro-actively counterattack our nature in order to learn continuously. Speaking of me
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Wait, does that mean we are related???   
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I found it amusing that the author expresses a lot of age-ist bigotry against other web programmers. Pot, this is kettle; Kettle, pot.
Software Zen: delete this;
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For many of us, if we wanted the computer to do anything, we had to type in entire programs from books To get the full experience, print out the source code and type it in yourself
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For sysadmins responsible for Exchange servers, it’s been a much different story as Microsoft Exchange servers have not been able to properly process the new date, and therefore, can't process mail. Signed int32 ought to be enough for everyone?
There is a patch out, fortunately (and well done Exchange team, sorry about the holiday)
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A St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who viewed the source HTML of a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website is now likely to be prosecuted for computer tampering, says Missouri Governor Mike Parson. If you take away 'View Source', only outlaws will use 'View Source'
Politicians don't understand tech: this week's edition.
Besides, I thought Missouri was the "Show me" state?
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"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." But give everyone even remotely responsible for prosecuting him the frontal lobotomy - it is obvious they don't use it already. And remove them from all positions of power.
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Message Removed
modified 31-Dec-21 7:44am.
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Message Removed
modified 31-Dec-21 7:44am.
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Key services, including network provisioning, will shut down January 4th. "This is the end. My only friend, the end"
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Very sad. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Adding more context to our Pull Requests got them merged two days faster. git commit -m "10 things you won't believe this code will do for you!"
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PR - Pain Request. 
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For most of my career, I worked with a proprietary code library. Each file was owned by a group, and you had to get a group member to open the file for your changes, OPEN being an explicit file state in the library. A file rarely got opened unless you were ready to commit your changes soon. All changes had to compile, had to have been tested, and non-trivial ones had usually been vetted in advance by someone in the owners' group. This encouraged would-be changers and code owners to work together. If a file was already open for changes, you knew it was a moving target if you also wanted to change it. You could work on it privately, but once it got opened for you, merging was your responsibility, not that of the code owners.
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The Kyoto University in Japan has lost about 77TB of research data due to an error in the backup system of its Hewlett-Packard supercomputer. Ouch
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Those are all a different sort of data lost. The university fubared backups and no longer have copies of the data at all. 4 of the stories you linked to were either hacks that resulted in data being stolen, or cases where a copy was made and list. And unless there's more to the story than in the article you linked, the fifth one (govt sending an HDD with personnel records to a data recovery company) might be the type of error U Kyoto made US (if it was the only copy), or a nothing burger written by someone clueless: Recovering an HDD is expensive enough that you only do it if you've got high value data on it, so the companies involved know how yo keep their customers data safe.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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C64 OS has one goal. Make a Commodore 64 feel fast and useful in today’s modern world. Just in case you got one of those spiffy new C64s over the holidays
Why yes, it is a slow news week, why do you ask?
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