Maybe not stealing money, perhaps. But still stealing. The law doesn't care if what you stole was money or not. If it has value and didn't belong to you, it's still theft, and you can still go to prison for it.

"Sure, it also means that some idiot could risk jailtime to save a few bucks on laundry, but who'd be dumb enough to do that?"

I see that you don't know any university students.

I'm sure he's backed up on disk somewhere.

that the tech industry's lobbyists have earned their paychecks tjis year.

"Removing punctuation from the database is the most reliable solution"

No, making your searches punctuation insensitive is the most reliable solution.

Next one will be the M5

"Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences."

...until NordVPN won't run!

I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support!

I just have a cheap digital alarm clock I got as a subscription bonus for some magazine. Too primitive to fail.

"Working for Reagan alone should give him a permanent pass with the MAGA Qult."

You apparently haven't gotten the word: MAGA and QAnon despise Reagan and everything he stood for and the people who set policy during his administration, although sometimes they're coy about admitting it.

I don't really have any need to be running DOS, aside from a few games I have run in DOSBox. But I'm sure there are people out there who want it, although I don't have any particulars.

And I note that they have *not* open-sourced the widely-popular 3. 1, 2 and now 4. They're taking care to pick the ones that even most people who still want a DOS would not want.

"CNC porn? Verboten!"

Well, yeah. I'd think porn involving an automatic router would be pretty painful, not to mention dangerous.

"Security flaw...or security feature?"