No part of the comment makes any sense.

> Several countries have the right to pictures with you in them declared legally.

What does it mean for a picture to be `declared legally`?

> The right to your portraits.

?

> This means that under certain circumstances, you can withdraw previous implicit
> permissions, because you did not sign a waiver.

Withdraw permissions you didn't explicitly give someone? But...they weren't given in the first place, so how can they be withdrawn?

Well, they can, though, because the photographer cannot sue. What's to stop them?

How about SSDs that last as long as regular hard drives. Until then, I ain't going near them.

> When Milan gets older and asks whether she's white, black, or Mexican, I may tell
> her "you are Milan, that's all. You're not a group, you are you."

"Dad, do you want me to get this passport or not?".
"Put white."

I commit at the end of every session. Why not? What's the cost? I use Git. Should I be doing it some other way, or not using Git? Please explain?

In computer science, these "you should do it this way" one size fits all edicts are usually sub-optimal.

Hardly anything's been released so far:

http://cryptome.org/2013/11/sn...

At this rate, half a century before it's all released, if at all.

With Microsoft you know they're going to abandon you at some point; leave you with a device you can't - or don't want to - use. Whether it's XP (yeah, it's old. Your point?) or 7 (end of support in half a year) or Windows 8.1 (You have to upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 to get upgrades...oh, and sorry, but although your device supports 8.0 it cannot run 8.1, so you're going to have to buy another PC and get 8.1 for it..oh, and did I mention that it's shit?).

No-one's going to buy a Suface 3, just like they didn't buy the first two (which were the same basic premise, so why do you suppose this third effort will succeed where the others failed miserably).

So you're saying it's pretty much just a souped up Ford Cortina...

What does this folksy nonsense actually mean? Something to do with saliva?

Yep, reckon so..gahoop gahoop gahoop.

Intersting link, thanks. And interesting that it mentions how tedious it is to have to scroll left and right when the screen isn't wide enough to display the text, and that Firefox's reflow code handles this. Chrome doesn't have reflow, so you're forced to scroll left and right for every single line of text you want to read on most (ie non-mobile) web pages.

Let's talk about this over a drink!

You know, like when you read Slashdot and you might want each story to have the same sized font. Is rendering a font in the correct size difficult; is there a technical reason for this?

Is a tablet that's got a chance in hell of taking on Android or iOS.

Most of those things pass through the USA on their way from the far east (korea, japan, and of course china).

You'll love this!

http://www.newyorker.com/onlin...

Don't show Penn Jillette, though; he might start shouting at you.