OP "mentioned" it and they "got offended", so I suggested they might have perceived it that way - it's a plausible explanation for that reaction, at least.

They also tend to dislike "bragging" about salary, and PTO is essentially part of that.

Presumably OP has missed the word "weeks" from "we get 4"? I know the EU requires you to take 4 weeks each year, and the UK mandates that you have 5.6 weeks (28 days) but can carry the extra 8 over.

Maybe just "allow 24 hours" - a few people have reported longer waits for some reason, occasionally "the officer who interviewed you forgot to click the send button"!

No, the video is a digital stream, but still carried over analogue channels along with the DOCSIS data. DSL has nothing at all in common with Ethernet, and is multiple analogue channels - IT, DOCSIS (cable modem) and broadcast TV all tend to use QAM, quadrature amplitude modulation, to modulate their datastream onto the carriers. When the manufacturers and standards bodies refer to a "cable modem" or "DSL modem", they are not making a mistake or misusing the term: they really do work by modulating and demodulating carrier signals, just more of them and with much wider bandwidth than PSTN modems used.

Similarly, OTA broadcasts are a digital data stream - but carried over analogue signals at the bottom of the stack.

Mediacom here are just switching from bare digital data streams to digital video over IP, and from DOCSIS 3.0 to 3.1 (fewer wider channels and better noise resistance), as it happens.

Apart from the simplest electrical or optical point to point link, you don't really get a bare digital signal in real electronics. Read the "Operation" section here, which gives quite a good description of how DSL distributes the data flow across the multiple analogue channels to adapt to noise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line

(ETA: not me who's down voting you BTW!)

Cable networks still do - you're just bonding a lot of analog carriers together to get the hundreds of megabits of bandwidth. DSL hasn't died out either, and that's also a modem with multiple analogue signals bonded in each direction.

Once you're approved there's plenty of time - used to be a 720 day deadline I think, but they seem to have removed that now. It can take up to 14 months though - if I were you I'd apply now, then you will probably be able to do it in Dublin next year.

Des Moines, Iowa. Short hop from Chicago by plane, a bit too far for car. GE makes a big difference for customs/immigration - just look into the camera, and walk on through - so much faster! MPC is meant to be pretty good too, and free, but I haven't tried it yet.

It does - that's where I did mine. The irritant for me is that I need Emerald on one end to get to/from Dublin and AA on the other to get to/from Chicago - the Aer Lingus website will book one or the other on a single ticket, but getting both means phoning (and I'm pretty sure paying more too). Last time I booked the Emerald leg separately - carryon only going East, so I could just check in online and use Flight Connections with a phone boarding pass, and staying overnight in Dublin anyway on the way West.

That could be it - OP, how much postage did you put on the envelope you enclosed?

Vision might be an issue - also the absence from the US, if you have another year of studies in another country: how much time are you spending in the US?

No. First, you'd also have to lose your memory so you didn't know where you could be returned to; secondly, it's specific to some asylum seekers, not anyone who overstays a visa.

Normally, they'd just put you in contact with your own embassy and arrange documentation and a return flight - most countries cooperate with that for obvious reasons. A few are obstructive (India and Iran among them as I recall)

They had a system of "pushbacks" to somewhere - Indonesia I think? They've been using Christmas Island for temporary detention since 2001, as recently as last August - it's apparently empty right now but could be used again.

Are you thinking of the fingerprinting for an FBI background check? I don't think the FBI can reuse the prints that were done for immigration purposes, they have to be on either form FD-258 or FD-1164 - you can take them yourself, it doesn't have to be done by anyone special.

No - even if someone has the empty string as their password, it still encrypts (hashes, technically) to the same length of value.

If you are still using the old NTLM (or LANMAN?) hashes, you could tell if the password is 1-7 characters long or 8-14, because that system happened to split the password into two 7 character chunks and hash each one separately (so anything 7 or shorter has the empty string's hash value for the second half). Even then you couldn't tell if it was 1 character or 7 without brute-forcing or guessing it though.

When you change a password, the new value gets sent to the DC, which can then go "oh, hunter2? Sorry, too short." Except at password change time, though, all it sees is a hash, so all it can tell is whether the value is right or not. (Slightly more complex with Kerberos, but still only a hash, not the password, so nobody can ever tell the original value except the client device itself.)

I remember an engineering researcher once claiming the university we worked at could save some ridiculous amount of money by changing the light bulbs more efficiently. (Something like waiting until two bulbs need changing in a room before sending someone, so they change both at once.) I think the claimed saving was equivalent to laying off all the maintenance department electricians, three times over, even thought changing bulbs was a small part of their total workload already...

As for reinventing the wheel with cameras, that sounds very Musky. Why use a $2 barcode scanner when you could use a $50 camera and $500 of processing hardware to do the same job nearly as well, but calling it "AI"?

The Home Office gets passenger data electronically and tracks that way; if you need proof of dates, the ferry tickets would work, or the French entry and exit stamps, if they stamped it.

Generally, you put the dates on the form, they match the Home Office database, and that's enough.

No. Incoming international flights all go to T5 anyway, that's where the Customs/immigration checks are; outbound, they don't distinguish between domestic and international except at the duty free checkout - same TSA checks whether you're flying to New York or New Zealand.

TSA Precheck should work for you, wherever you fly, as long as it's a TSA checkpoint which has Precheck lanes, your airline is a Precheck member (Aer Lingus weren't, but have finally joined now!) and you have the KTN in your airline profile.

That's great, I was wondering why they hadn't - of course, until this year their main US hub was Chicago T5, which didn't have Precheck lanes anyway until Delta's move there; I got Precheck anyway because I start with American Airlines and connect in Chicago. Now, if they could just fix the website so it can book 3 leg flights (US connection - Chicago - Dublin - Europe connection) it would be perfect!

Not so much "good" as popular after WW2 - after Washington, maybe the nearest equivalent would be Eisenhower? America has never had a war close to Frances WW2 experience - completely overrun, years of occupation, a scary number of people siding with the invaders - perhaps the Civil War came close in some respects.

If Russia or China somehow conquered the US today, and some US leaders fled to another country then came back with a much bigger army and pushed the invaders back out, I'm sure they'd be regarded the same way, but I'm glad that hasn't happened!

Adjustment of status is not the renewal of conditions - that's a different process, used if you were already living in the US when you applied, so didn't need a visa.

I don't know why they ask both questions though - the instructions confirm they really do mean the embassy/consulate/USCIS office for both questions. So, "US Embassy, London, UK" or whatever for both. Odd question! For US processing, you do sometimes apply in one place then get processed elsewhere (like, USCIS Lockbox Arizona; USCIS Field Office, Los Angeles, CA), maybe that's why they have both?

The Post Office doesn't normally handle mail at all (unlike the US, it's a separate company) - what did they say? Was the address wrong or misread?

It sounds from the name and the PC reference like an update to their Paladium/JPM Reserve card, which is currently very close to a renamed CSR? Update it, widen the criteria beyond the current exclusivity, maybe higher AF. Or maybe a broader Sapphire product line refresh.

No, that's not a power of his office - that would be one of the "unofficial acts" immunity doesn't apply to.

They've ruled immunity covers his job only - so he can't be arrested or charged for, say, a legislation veto someone objects to, nominating a controversial Cabinet member, ordering an air strike on a "terrorist camp" that turns out to be a wedding... But personal stuff, a DUI, get in a fight? No protection for that.

What are they going to do if he does, shut him in a Cyberstuck?

If Biden does drop out now, the replacement will show an obvious contrast with Covfefe guy. The problem is that next to Biden's "worldwarvietbluh" Covfefe looks like competence.