they are on a format that NSA no longer has the ability to view or digitize,” the NSA FOIA office said in a follow-up. “Without being able to view the tapes, NSA has no way to verify their responsiveness. NSA is not required to find or obtain new technology (outdated or current) in order to process a request.”

In short, "we don't want to".

Never understood why Windows' explorer hides extension by default. Does MS fear it would confuse their users?

SIGTERM is the graceful way tho? It nicely asks programs to please close and cleanup. Unlike SIGKILL, which bombs the shop and creates orphans.

Why is covering the badge number even allowed?

US needs to regulate chargers.

Yes, yes, market and all. But look at printers. Or charger cables for small electronic devices (EU stepped in). Lock-in of customers is an incentive working against common chargers.

Pretty sure that 90% of Linux users don't switch to Windows.

Can we please identify the guys always pushing encryption-breaking ideas?

The web should have had a Terms of Usage from start. Something like

"If you broadcast content on the internet, expect people to download it."

Humans are particularly difficult to preserve because of the delicate structure in (most of) our heads.

Nonsense. We are just too big to be frozen quickly enough that no ice crystals emerge. Every living thing turns to slush if frozen normally.

I don't think killing him will solve anything. It just changes the owners.

Why be good if there is no hell?

Because morale is a societal and not a religious thing.

That's not worldnews. US farms wouldn't be legal in EU. Most EU farms wouldn't be legal here (Swiss). California is not the world.

Companies can do that in US? Sounds like a loophole...

Try pulling yourself by the nose.

So there are politicans who really believe that climate change is a conspiracy? Or they just don't care for the future?

I bet it isn't really Magdalene.

I was once working for a project in a bank, a developer answered me to why they go app only, because "you don't know what people do with their browser".

It's only about the feeling of control (and some paranoia), not about security.

One is measurable, the other is guesswork.

What he understands as "work" is easily replaceable with an AI. Good to know.