People always lie or play around with surveys. Statisticians know about this and know how to model around it.

Why can't the Jedi people have their invisible friend(s)? It's based on a derivation of the Jesus myth which in turn is based on earlier god-myths. I don't see why this particular derivation would be less valid.

Better they steal it than attorneys getting it. Attorneys produce nothing of interest, at least if a game company steals it there is a chance they produce something worth wile down the line.

MS broke the standard agreement for do-not-track, so I don't blame anyone for ignoring the setting if from IE10. The standard was there for a reason: It was the only chance any site would agree to following the headers intention.

That sounds about right. Still waiting for someone to tell me why I find RAID5s of 16+ drives in the wild now and again.

Raidz2+ and a few hot spares is the shit. Do you build volumes with 16 drives though? I rarely go over 8 per volume and then stripe them.

For mirrors, that was something that was practiced a bit in the 90s; one brand of disks for each half of the mirror. It wasn't common though, and I haven't seen anyone do it this millennium. When you buy big storage systems you buy them preloaded with whatever disks the vendor recommends.

(And for the last year you where happy if the vendor could deliver enough disks to fill your order. Damn people building HDD factories in areas that gets flooded.)

Still waiting for a single-digit one to show up.

You win.

We are old, and we should feel old. :-/

You are not completely wrong for complicated hardware, but for things like sensors and stuff it doesn't need to be unmaintainable. Few if any of those NDAs also come with and demands to not write clear code and comment it.

You might be thinking of Nvidias old "Open Source" 2D drivers which where written by Nvidia and then showed through a code obfuscator before it was shipped.

Getting HW documentation under NDA used to be a rather common thing for Linux driver developers and it's still not unusual. The NDA will say something to the effect of "You can't spread this doc, but feel free to build an OSS driver and talk about how it works".

X-Plane does aerodynamic simulations on that no other civilian solution can touch.

Minecraft/Mojang is being sued for the exact same thing, So he should have a talk with Notch.

In your country perhaps. In Sweden the photo must be matched up to the person driving.

It was the first console with a controller not made for small children's hands, and that combined with excellent games made it a great console.

(Obvious troll, but since I don't have mod points right now...)