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So... the electric company can't become a monopoly because you can spend the money and effort to create your own electric company? How can that not be said for anything anywhere th…

Thank you for the correction!

In addition to the non-cookie fingerprinting mentioned by others that can happen, there is a loophole in the GDPR cookie control legislation that allows "legitimate interest" cooki…

I have somehow never gotten around to throwing away the box of ancient floppies I've got in a closet from ages ago, and the Windows 95b (OSR2) installation disks I made were still …

Why can't somewhere.com have the public key for user@somewhere.com and serve it to other e-mail providers on request? Letting one's provider hold onto the private key doesn't provi…

I am a layperson, so the answer is probably painfully obvious, but why can't e-mail have TLS-style key exchange, where the sender's server gets the public key from the recipient's …

"Targeted" for me would imply that Windows is checking first to see whether Firefox is installed, and only showing the suggestion if so. If this is just a general suggestion that g…

Plausible line of thought.

Though in this case mitigated by the split between .docx (macro-less) documents and .docm (macro-enabled). Either file type can also be unzipped and have their contents inspected f…

Norton Utilities, XTree Pro Gold, and Borland Sidekick were the tits on MS-DOS.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7167193 Percussive Maintenance (uncountable) (humorous) The use of physical concussion, such as a knock or a tap, in an attempt to make a malfunction…

Such is the difference between an emoji and an emoticon. https://writingexplained.org/emoji-vs-emoticon-difference

> I think that for any size k less than the total size of the database, it is not anonymous. Wouldn't that require that every field of every record in the database be globally uniq…

> Authorities are looking to promote tourism at Dahshur, located about 17 miles south of central Cairo. > The site, which lies in the open desert, attracts just a trickle of visito…

To replace punch-in/punch-out machines or sign-in/sign-out sheets, perhaps.

>The fairness doctrine was hardly ever envoked. I (a layperson) don't really follow this. It sounds to me like "while the rules were in effect, they were rarely broken". >an era wh…

Agreed. Distributing actual EA assets and using EA-owned branding (and artwork?) seems to be the problem. Simply running alternate servers, distributing patches to the game, and us…

I like the idea on some level, but could consciousness be separated from biological motivations like pleasure and pain? That feels more like the idea of universe-as-computer than i…

But how literal to the definition do you go before you cease to be reasonably practical? "Unlimited" is an abstract absolute concept. Nothing in existence can ever be unlimited, lo…

Agreed. He removed the second B2B2 probability annotation as though it were a repeat of the first and inapplicable to the probability set, but that's not the case, and it shouldn't…

Thanks. I like GDPR anyway. Makes me think God Damn Privacy Rules, and we're increasingly lacking in effective ones.

I feel like the challenging and political nature of Mr. Malamud's communications were a big misstep. Putting government representatives on the defensive turns an already difficult …

Of course, acknowledging and appreciating differences differs greatly from enforcing differences.

It sounds like you would be better served with a Bluetooth proximity-based device like a Gatekeeper. http://www.gkchain.com/gatekeeper.html I haven't looked into the OTP functional…

Exactly! How on Earth could you prove an offending image wasn't yours?