You shall not pass!

There is at least one thing they could do (not saying it would help the workers, but they could do it): Fire any remaining people then take that money and run! /s

Good gravy! I was giving NBC at least a little credit for trying to do mediocre journalism.

I know English is not everyone’s first (or even second) language, but if your job is writing for a living in English at least get some help.

P.S. I only know one language myself and couldn’t read/write/speak/understand any other to save my soul, so I think people that can are really gifted. It’s just that NBC obviously didn’t care about this article in the least.

NBC’s AI can’t write worth a hoot:

Hundreds of works were damaged at the Louvre in Paris when a pipe burst because of flooding, the museum’s deputy general administrator said.

The flooding led to a burst pipe and affected one of the three rooms of the library in the Egyptian antiquities department, he said.

Above are paragraphs 1 and 3 from the referenced article.

A simple but logical reading of both states that “a flood occurred (first), and the flood is what caused the pipe to burst (second)”. Extremely disappointed in this level of journalistic competence.

Now you’re talking!

Bathroom door too; wanna show it all off! /s

Drive Letters are also for removable media (floppy disks, CD/DVD drives, others [magneto-optical drives, etc), not to mention network drives. Not just Fixed Disks (hard drives).

It’s just an easy way to specify one disk from another.

That’s the only “cooked cabbage” I’ve heard of; can’t say I care for it, but my partner likes it.

YMMV.

Will it execute . . . probably.

Will it execute what you want it to . . . probably not.

All that icky transmission fluid was limiting the performance of the transmission (I’m sure). /s

I’ve never considered cooking coleslaw . . . the things I’ve been missing in my life.

Yeah, but just one “unusual spike in traffic” - so it seems. /s

It’s like rain . . .

I see what you did there.

Perhaps you could put it on a separate WiFi network and have your router limit what IP range it can access on your Internet connected network (leave the gateway to the Internet off that range).

NASA has been doing the sterilization I listed above for decades now; it’s not new.

Can you give some examples (preferably with references) of where NASA (or ESA, etc) have avoided areas due to fear of contamination?

That’s why this is done: https://www.nasa.gov/ames/space-biosciences/planetary-protection/

I realize you were probably talking about visiting other worlds in person, but we would probably still have unmanned missions there first.

Didn’t mean to offend you (or anyone else).

I work in IT too (Windows) and have admin rights on my workstation. Even though I have the power to install any software, it’s against policy to do so (and technically that’s a good policy).

Also, I don’t like the idea of anyone/anything but me having my passwords. I go with 2FA if something is important/certified based 2FA if it’s really important.

Yeah, just tell your work IT staff that you need admin rights to your workstation so you can “install the software you want to” (that they don’t supply or support or update).

See how well that works. /s