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The distinction is that when you visit a place of business, the data is under the control of the business owner. When you visit you friend's house, the data is not under their cont…

No, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop Kind of related, it was a COM control you could stretch over your whole desktop, that received push notifications. Also, I be…

Probably the HDMI port.

They meant "hey that made me think of a related story"

Yes, Thinkpads have traditionally had the best linux hardware support of all laptops, ever since there were x86 laptops (the easiest installs were thinkpads, and toshiba, early on)…

Are you implying that Apple's motivation in making their maps product was to fight the privacy abuses of a large, wealthy corporation?

Typo: "alternatives and way(s) to improve it"

Perhaps it is we who are the potatoes.

The point of trademark is to protect the reputation of the company using the mark just as much as protecting the customer from being mislead.

I use mine solely to make sure I don't miss calls texts, and appointments. But you know yourself. Would you be tempted to load flappy bird onto it right away? Would you forward you…

Another option: caption of your own pirate ship, inside a giant battleship.

The word transpiler was used before we had web browsers, much less javascript. Point taken that it is still a compiler.

It probably means that it was written before we had a complete and correct implementation of the STL on all major compilers. Google around for Visual Studio 6 STL, and take into ac…