An entire generation thereby grew up with personal computing represented by vendor-controlled handheld appliances, and naturally regarded actual PCs in the same manner.

And their skills to manage a PC atrophied too, leading to a feedback loop.

We should be encouraging banks to support the platform, not specific distros.

Not necessarily. Sometimes it's better to forget about taking the shot if all you have is a phone camera.

The best camera is ... the one that's best tailored for the shot. Everything else is a compromise or, as we used to say, a waste of film.

It's not necessary for every company to 'revenue maxx' by jumping on every trend.

AMD made $3.5 billion in profit last year, money left over after all salaries were paid and all expenses were settled. It might be galling to this generation of avarists, but maybe that's enough?

'Doing a decent job' seems to have become seen as archaic these days, which explains much of how the stock market works. The line doesn't _have_ to keep going up faster and faster.

Because very few 'end user' people know how to use en/decryption. So it's much easier to send them a familiar file and say 'enter this password' than to have them searching the web to work out which arguments to pass to openssl. In a command line? What's that?

I received an AES-encrypted file recently but neither gnupg nor openssl could determine what mode and keysettings the sender had used, so it was just a useless lump of data. Very secure though...

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But they just didn't have the ergonomics or battery life to act as a replacement for small SLRs.

It would be tricky to implement, but a network tarpit that responds on TCP as if outgoing packets are being accepted and routed might be useful.

We don't know that, as it's not even live yet.

In fact it might even open a whole new market for 'unlock scammers' who do the initial groundwork and then sell their vulnerable mark to the next scammer.

We stopped because the major nuclear powers had accumulated sufficient data to enable high-fidelity computer modelling of future warheads.

It wasn't just, or perhaps even wholly, driven by environmental empathy, it was an attempt at was pulling the ladder up behind the the major powers. There are eight non-signatories and seventeen non-ratifiers of the treaty, the majority of whom already being proliferation risks.

Your stats are also arbitrary, there have been sixteen nuclear tests since the Treaty opened for signature in _1996_. Setting the cutoff to 1998 deliberately excludes Indian and Pakistani tests.

10, 15 years from now the ability to run your own code will be a distant memory unless you constantly subscribe to an annual Developer Account with BigCorp. Oh no, you've coded something that violates the ToS; account terminated.

Not many of those left in my local libraries. They downsized to popular fiction and a rack of magazines to introduce more sofas and space for charity cake stalls. And "mindful colouring-in" if you're around for the 4.5 days of the week that they're open.

Libraries threw away the one thing that made them unique, curated knowledge, in order to compete with Starbucks as a "third space".

This will not arrive through Android updates but through Google Play Services.

You can try to block Play Services using DNS trickery, but it's like whackamole. The only way to be guaranteed safe from this update is to run a ROM without Google services installed.

Say you found a debit card on the ground, reset the PIN by using the owner's credentials that you found online, and used it to make purchases until the bank froze the card.

Would that be a 'human malfunction' resovable by repaying?

Maybe people are watching porn because they can't get the real deal?

Many marriages succumb to 'dead bedrooms' and many young people feel that they cannot compete in the modern dating game, which is essentially Top Trumps for Humans.

I mean this isn't even ancient history, it only happened in 2022. He sent three termination notifications before it was determined that he had no grounds to refuse to buy.

Yet it's a useful, comparable, measure for acceleration and is frequently exercised on track. If you had an AMG and haven't taken it for at least one track day then I question why you bought it. Image?

Maybe 30-70 would be more useful for determining overtaking capability, but that would require everyone in the motoring industry to agree to change at the same time.