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The problem is that multinational corporations can devise complicated ways to avoid paying taxes in the countries where they do business by exploiting tax havens, as Apple did in I…

You can be infected without having a fever. That's one of the problems with coronavirus. Knowing you have the virus won't save you, of course, but you will be able to react accordi…

Agreed, but unless you can self-isolate, it's not going to last very long. If you got tested weekly, the costs would soon mount up.....

The marginal cost of verification could be zero. All Twitter has to do is to get together with Facebook, Google et al and agree to support a number of approved independent identity…

In the EU, free (at point of use) healthcare is available to all residents, including the unemployed. In several countries, you can get free treatment immediately even if you are n…

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If the "known eugenicist" is who I think it is, then he isn't. The general idea, as explained by the late Hans Rosling, is that if you educate people (including girls) and help the…

One of the nice things was that you could run Windows NT on a DUAL PROCESSOR PC with two Alpha chips. This was such an attractive idea I thought of buying one. However, when I did …

DEC sold its StrongARM (ARM-based) business to Intel in 1997, before DEC was taken over by Compaq in 1998. It resulted in Intel's XScale business, which it later sold to Marvell. C…

> When it launched in 2001...the idea that a massive array of cheap x86 processors will outperform enterprise-class servers simply hadn't occurred to most people yet The idea was c…

Belated reply (Christmas!) > the failure was not necessarily technical Well, that was exactly my point ;-) If you only look at the technical issues, ur doin it rong.

I use Everything all day every day and it's brilliant at what it does. However, it's not Google Desktop Search, which I sorely miss...

(1) Cost of software is relatively small compared with the cost of employing the people who use it. (2) Cost of software is relatively small compared with the cost of retraining st…

> They both got ones with 128GB drives which has turned into massive frustration. But we will ignore that for now. Please can you un-ignore that in one sentence? ;-)

From a polemic in The Spectator: "There is a huge cast of well-paid people, from management consultants to economic advisers, whose entire salaries are earned by ripping out Cheste…

Search the page and you'll find several mentions of Brave. What I want to know is why someone would pick Brave instead of the Epic Privacy Browser... ... though personally, I think…

Why Brave rather than the Epic Privacy Browser? (They are both based on Chromium....)

No. Google's OneBox, Ask’s Smart Answers, Microsoft’s Instant Answers, and Yahoo Shortcuts all existed at least two years before DDG was even founded in 2008. Also, DDG's "Instant …

No, uBlock is not the same as uBlock Origin. Quote: In July 2018, uBlock.org was acquired by AdBlock,[19] and began allowing "Acceptable Ads",[20] a program run by Adblock Plus tha…

From Wikipedia: So, as of May 2019, in the 34 states that have set a marriage age by statute, the lower minimum marriage age when all exceptions are taken into account, are: 2 stat…

Let all your colleagues know that you only ready emails at specific times, eg start of day, after lunch, end of day (replace with actual hours if possible). And if there's somethin…

True, but the browser brought a GUI and ease of use. More people could use a browser to run ftp than could -- or at least, would -- run ftp.

Seconded. Everything is brilliant if you need to find files by name, not contents....

He's CTO of Azure and therefore a VIP at Microsoft... In his spare time he's also managed to write three novels.

> Without giving them plenty of time to pullout? These things take a long time. Google was abusing its search monopoly before the EU started a seven-year investigation that resuled…