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usenet and irc are quite old. how are they examples of some mythical point at which the internet was unlocked by services? centralized and decentralized would include almost any se…

Meet the new Microsoft - same as the old one. This is the same reasoning that led to a decade of mindnumbingly obvious exploits against Internet Explorer. You've got to create secu…

He's wrong about capitalization. The "to" in "to allow" is part of the verb (forming the infinitive). It's not a preposition. Dumb flex.

JetBlue has an all Airbus and Embraer 175 fleet. No matter what you book on B6 mainline, you're getting a comfortable airliner. Virgin America had an all-Airbus fleet...until Alask…

no. that case is about whether notice on shrinkwrap or via a license-acceptance screen can create an enforceable agreement. its not even a copyright issue. morality has nothing to …

a few concepts you need to start: copyright is a right to exclude. copyright does not arise from your agreement. the copyright attaches to the protected expression. analogies are d…

No way am I giving your startup* my phone number. Maybe you can have a custom-generated, one-use-only email address that I can turn off so you don't spam me. (Your startup may be v…

microsoft has always had a culture of "just make it work yesterday" that led to shoddy code. they spent a lot of money, some of it on PR and some of it on real work, polishing up s…

Nice write up, but the author is wrong about the GEOS version. Geodes (GEOS executables, drivers, libraries--pretty much anything that "runs") have their own version information (v…

You are: 1. Consuming medical and emergency resources by creating easily preventable severe injuries 2. Raising raising insurance premiums or burdening public hospitals with the sa…

TUL: Skoda makes reliable cars at a good price. VW bought them out; they're basically VW models built in Czechia factories that apparently have great quality control. https://www.a…

What were they a professor of? I don't see a paradox of choice here; none of those Colgate products, or anything else sitting on the shelf that's ADA accepted, is going to rot your…

As others have pointed out, you're wrong about USB-C's minimum standards. But more important, markets work best when consumers have good information about what they're buying. Ligh…

This kind of piece usually happens because of the following common industry practice: A company's PR department (usually via an outside publicist) approaches a friendly (or likely …

Your airplane analogy is apt, but it cuts the other way. In fact, FedEx likes to buy out Boeing facilities so that they're not "completely reliant" on Boeing for anything.[1] As fo…

so use '2>&1' to redirect stderr to stdout. new ideas are great. but this isn't a new idea. "run a command silently unless it fails" is basic; it's the sort of thing that should ma…

The Kobo Sage is slightly cheaper (in the US) for a comparable product. Still over $200, but not a lot if you get a Sage on sale and buy via Rakuten for an additional rebate. I've …

I think the writers believe what they're saying. They're just unable to express themselves concisely or think clearly (or both). It's a lot of words to say something really simple:…

A "group of people ... collectively making decisions" doesn't help make sense of anything. A company is itself a group collectively making decisions. Where you draw the "group" lin…

The (possibly apocryphal) version I was told includes another layer: The problematic code was part of a last-minute kludge for the Ariane 4. The kludged code violated the Ariane 4'…

So true. Today I must explain to my mother that she needs to press a flat picture (not a button) of three horizontal bars in order to pull up a command list. The list won't be sort…

You must not have been around for the 80s and 90s' "desktop wars." Microsoft did everything they could to undermine innovation and they didn't help businesses, they locked them int…

Apple can absolutely accuse you of pirating something it doesn't want to sell. The real question is whether they will spend the time or money to do anything about it. The answer is…

If that "company" owned the copyright, they would almost certainly win, but damages could be low or negligible negligible as long as the distributor wasn't selling the abandonware …

That's excellent, and Rust makes perfect sense here. But consider that OP has an important point (though not said very diplomatically): Ada/SPARK has decades of experience and rese…