Is a list of millions of people worth 26 billion dollars?

You could hire an army to scrape a larger list in a short period of time for a fraction of that. Or just purchase a list from someone who already has similar data, such as Microsoft for example.

Maybe they have a plan to monetize it. I can't think of a way to do it without grossly devaluing LinkedIn, but then again I don't have 26 billion dollars.

Its well established that El Nino events are closely tied to the US election cycle. This hot air sequestration technology sounds like our only hope.

In English we started soon after the invention of removable type, with characters like &, @, % and $

And they will remain in text because people want them there. I'm also surprised geeks hate the thought of them being embedded as a standard code point, rather than having to write parsers to convert the source :boat: syntax to whatever bespoke encoding they are using.

Having used the excellent self-destructing cookies plugin for Firefox for a while now, yes, this should be the default way it works. With trivial white listing for the sites you do want to remember you, which in practice turns out to be quite rare.

Even if it just scratches the paint, someone has to pay for the repairs.

The other part of snaps that I think *does* make it attractive for some open source software is that the application is installed and run in a container. This is great for those web browsers that more and more think of themselves as operating systems, and to a lesser extent many other applications. Being able to control the camera and mike from outside of the container, restrict it from writing to the parent containers filesystem at all except for ~/Downloads, block all incoming connections, restrict outgoing connections... At the moment, users place a huge amount of trust in people we don't know to write secure and non-malicious software and by easily putting this software in a sandbox we can lower that mandatory trust level somewhat.

I like having string encoding that explicitly tells me 'emoji of an old man walking his rhinoceros'. Its so much nicer to work with than having to write a custom parser for each source, like if I needed to parse github's :boat: syntax and worry about all the magic quoting rules. The world isn't going to go back so ASCII smilies. That :boat: has :bon-voyage:.

I'm not sure why people get so worked up about it? If you don't need them, you don't implement them. If you do need them, it makes things better.

Next up, how identical emoji in different cultures can lead to miscommunication. Or identical words for that matter.

There is also nothing stopping you having multiple ?buntu-desktop's installed. You can select with DE when you login.

It is normal insecurity. People want to rationalize and justify their decisions when they are in a minority. You will always going to get the Mint fan piping up in a pro-Ubuntu thread until the install base gets into the same league. You don't see the same thing from OSX fans now that you see >50% users at a non-Windows,non-Linux technical conference.

Its just another 'chilling effect' variant really.

It may be valid according to the RFC, but programmers quickly learn to ignore that due to all the systems that don't cope with the RFC. It is better to not accept it at input time than deal with all the problems you are going to get later from relays, proxies, all your own software, all the 3rd party software you need to integrate with, and all the mail clients that need to be used to contact you. It gets tiring, so we say alphanumeric only and stop being a smart alec. We have enough trouble dealing with IDNA and new TLDs without dealing with 'the programmer formerly known as Anon-Admin'.

You are assuming there is a driver seat. The rules are for self-driving cars, and will need to consider vehicles with no adult humans on board whatsoever. How these rules define the liability issues will define the industry, and whether the US has autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles.

I imagine if Google gets liability for their cars, allowing autonomous vehicles, you won't have a choice about keeping your car patched and screwing with the process the equivalent or cutting another drivers break cables.

Its a very common acronym for Bring Your Own Drinks around here, where you bring your own booze and a restaurant charges a corkage fee. I imagine it does adversely affect security.

Thats one way of fixing the problem. The other is fishing smarter and more sustainably. Dumping the massive factory ships in favour boats that can use more sustainable processes (eg. throwing back egg bearing females alive) will actually increase employment (but make the industry less profitable and the product more expensive in the short term).