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People using it colloquially is exactly the thing that leads to trademark erosion. Most eroded trade marks were previously owned and registered. It's not the registration that give…

The regulations are not "weird". Before telcos were required to route all calls without discrimination, they didn't. And as soon as telcos are no longer required to route their com…

I don't think this was an attempt in good faith to participate in the discussion about the utility or futility of codes of conducts. This seems to be, depending on your inclination…

That's just a shortcut mechanism though, nothing more.

I think it might be true on the grounds that credit cards are only king in the US and Latin America, whereas they represent less than 10% of cashless payments in the large markets,…

Again: why do you use such belittling words like "conspiracy theory"? We know that the services interfere. We know that they interfered with vendors of cryptography products. And w…

Since not all information in the database is public, yes, you'd need to duplicate the work. You'd also need to put a lot of work into securing the now open service against attack a…

Is that just a rant or do you have an actual reason to call TrueCrypt crappy? It was at least somewhat solid and it definitely had a great mindshare at the time. It wasn't niche. A…

Yes, in a strictly semantic sense, it is a limitation. However, in general such access would be not only a bad idea due to the loss of abstraction and additional work to implement …

It does work well though. As a user, I can't remember significant Wikipedia or Wikidata outages. And I'm really not sure if whatever blockchain solution that person on twitter want…