that now they no longer have to compromise the BIOS in individual machines to be able to access absolutely everything in your private space.

Makes their work far easier.

They stop eating when the water temp goes over 14C, and never get big enough to be legally catchable, nor big enough to breed.

When my Dad was young, Loch Laxford in north-west Scotland supported 14 boats fishing for lobsters (thus 14 families). When I visited in the 1990s, there was one boat getting half an income out of fishing for lobsters.

...when you actually need them?

Subtle problem.

The sea is a really, really harsh environment. Getting any power generation device to work reliably, and last long enough to pay for itself, is one sumbitch of an uphill struggle.

The tidal flow plants in Scotland have been developing for twenty years now, which is why it is HILARIOUS that USA has suddenly discovered the ocean.

The explosion was INSIDE the pipe.

Guess who had access to the inside? Gazprom, that's who.

Motive? Penalty clauses in the supply contracts.

" is widely regarded as a founder of the field" ... by people who have never heard of Donald Michie, "director of the University of Edinburgh's Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception (previously the Experimental Programming Unit) from its establishment in 1965". Michie was one of the stars at Bletchley Park. Yudkowsky was not even born when the Bletchley Park work was declassified.

Bah humbug.

17 years you've been around? Well, I've been using the Tubes of Inter since they were a Child of Frankenstein back in 1975. I have never heard of you, Zippyshare.

Congrats, ZippyShare, on your marketing. Great job! You made sure everyone who could use your service knew about you - NOT.

Forgot to explain; cutting oil use by 20% makes the world price fall sharply. That's how the project becomes unprofitable.

Transition to electric vehicles as fast as possible.

That cuts oil use by 20%, makes the project unprofitable.

...especially NOT medical insurance companies.

In several decades of IT consulting, I have repeatedly encountered insurance companies where everyone was an entitled, self-satisfied, arrogant prick who believed that their IT was perfect, that they knew everything, and they could not be told about the gaps in their knowledge; and they believed everyone they met had to jump to satisfy their every demand. And it always turned out that the individual involved did not have the authority to decide anything.

Best policy: leave them to rot in their own juice.

Thanks for the info.

But sweet Jesus, save us from being owned by Apple. Slavery is supposed to be illegal.

TFA was written by someone completely tone-deaf. Not only in an echo chamber, but totally oblivious to that fact.

How do I know? Just notice that TFA refers to "the App Store" as if there is only one.

Buy a refurb business desktop from Lenovo, Dell, or HP. All their business machines are tested/certfified for Linux, and are robustly built.

Better value-for-money than any piece of cheapo consumer bling.

Late 80s, early 90s. Just before the brown stuff hit the rotating air mover.

The exact same four aspects: mission statements composed of sunshine and kittens, complacency ("No-one ever got fired for buying IBM"), delusions of exceptionalism (Token Ring was theoretically great, but the IBM-designed hardware stank, and they refused to release the IP so someone competent could have a go - they lost the whole networking space), too many middle managers, too many VPs.

But they did one thing right - when they made me redundant, the payout was excellent.

I test-drove an MG 4 a couple of weeks ago.

Excellent car, better than I expected, 250 mile range, half the price of a Tesla, delivery time 8 weeks. None of the Western legacy auto makers can make a car that good, at that price, in that volume.

I would have placed an order, except the Missus said to wait for the MG 5 in a few weeks, because we need a bigger vehicle than the MG 4.

Pro tip: the MG 5 is barely more expensive than the MG 4. In other words, really excellent value for money.