What you're looking for is DavMail. I've been using it for years so that I can have all my email accounts in one program.

Agreed by (at least some) legal definitions, but I was working more from a dictionary definition which is usually anyone committing a crime which is anything unlawful by dictionary definition.

In the US almost all milk is of the 'low level' pasteurized variety you mentioned this means temperatures of at least 161 F for not less than 15 seconds, followed by rapid cooling. Very little US milk is ultra-pasteurized. It's just trendy right now in the US for some people to drink raw milk. I wouldn't say that it's especially popular, but there's definitely a community of people who seek it out, trade places to buy it, etc.

I drink a lot of milk, enough that I still have home delivery which is very rare in the US these days. My experience, and a key reason I pay extra for home delivery, is that the taste of milk had much more to do with freshness than anything else. The fresher the better.

Actually that's exactly what criminal means. We can (and should) absolutely have a debate about what things should be unlawful today and be continually updating laws. Make no mistake though that if something is unlawful when you do it you are a criminal. That's the definition of criminal.

Yes, that means that everyone who speeds is a criminal. Yes, that means that people who drank (well actually only people who produced, sold, or transported intoxicating liquors) during the prohibition era were criminals. There are many examples of things which should not be, or are not anymore, unlawful but it is clearly the case that people who did those things while they were unlawful are in fact criminals. Yes, almost everyone is a criminal because we have a lot of laws on the books.

This is true. My recollection is also that somewhere along the line Microsoft changed the default in Windows. Traditionally in Windows all mass storage devices, think HDDs, had performance enhancing features such as caching turned on which can cause delayed writes while media like floppies had it turned off. The problem is that when USB 2 came out and USB mass storage became feasible people started unplugging USB drives as soon as the copy appeared to be finished even if the OS was really still writing to the drive in the background causing a potential for data corruption. In this era we were teaching everyone to eject USB drives before removing as that would force a clearing of the write cache before giving the OK to remove the drive.

Somewhere along the line (maybe Windows Vista?) it became apparent that the clumsy drive eject mechanism in Windows, combined with users frequently forgetting to do it, and the increasing popularity of flash drives made this a usability issue. At that point Microsoft changed how Windows handles USB attached mass storage devices and disabled or modified the performance features to flush the write cache as quickly as possible and keep copy dialogs on screen until the files were actually fully copied. At the same time a lot of flash drive manufacturers started putting access indicator LEDs on the drives so you could tell if the drive was being accessed. After this most Windows users stopped ejecting drives before removal and save for an especially odd case there seems to have been little data corruption which can be traced back to not ejecting the drive.

Pretty much anything electronic can create RF emissions. See unintentional and incidental radiators at https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/rfd...

Pretty much all commercially sold electronic equipment needs to be FCC certified for sale in the US specifically because they can cause interference like this. See https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/rfd... specifically the sections on unintentional and incidental radiators.

I don't know why the LA Times is reporting this as new news. I'm pretty sure I had heard by Wednesday or Thursday that the problem was the rocket rant out of TEA-TEB ignition fluid. Don't journalists watch press conferences and read analysis anymore? Does the CEO need to Tweet about it before they pay attention?

I believe I saw one quote from Elon somewhere that even thought they won't be re-used in entirety there will be some re-use of expensive (in time and money) parts from them. In particular I think he mentioned re-use of the grid fins.

Predictability is certainly part of it but I'm pretty convinced that it's more lucrative too. If you surveyed all users of software from these subscription purveyors I'm pretty sure you would find they are paying more (averaged on a per-year basis) than they were pre-subscription. Usually the subscription price is the same or just ever so slightly less than what buying every upgrade would cost you. In my experience while some people do buy every upgrade there are a larger number of users who traditionally only bought every second or third upgrade. While they may lose a few of these users there are many they are not losing and who are just paying more.

Of course the "predictability" argument is the only one you'll ever find evidence of and the only one these companies will ever say out loud because being vocally anti-consumer isn't usually good for business.

Maybe, that's what alternative operating systems are for. Trust me I'm right in line to raise a ruckus if something like only allowing signed operating systems on your PC (ala some of the UEFI proposals) but it's not like there aren't alternative OS choices here. If Microsoft wants to make Windows into a cesspool of advertising so be it.

They already do for bigger businesses, it's called "software assurance". Believe you me, if/when they could figure out how to force smaller business users into subscription Windows they will. There's a reason that the commercial software publishers (Adobe, Autodesk, etc.) are all going subscription based, hint, it's not because it's better for consumers. It's because it's much more lucrative for them. These people are in business to make money, which means taking yours. They've just gotten better at it.

Yeah, you're not the target audience and are probably not going to be installing shady registry cleaners and system optimization utilities anyway. Are you also saying we as a society shouldn't try and shut down sketchy con-artist retailers because you're not stupid enough to fall for what they're selling and should be able to waste your money if you want to? Sometimes there are larger social issues at work than just you. You can always turn off Windows Defender if you don't like what it's doing...or run another OS if you prefer.

I took AP CS in 2000-2001 back when it was C++ based and we didn't use a textbook then either so I'm not so sure this is a new phenomena. We relied on lectures and a lot of hands-on exercises which seemed to work out pretty well. I suspect at that time the AP CS market was quite a bit smaller so there probably were a pretty limited set of textbook options, especially geared at high school students. Now, with the advantage of substantially more online resources there are probably even fewer reasons to be using a textbook. The teacher does need to put some effort into pre-selecting some good online resources to share with students as well as some effort into being a reasonably proficient programmer themselves though. There are many ways to do that too though and my AP CS teacher taught one or two sections of AP CS and the rest of the time was a math teacher which was pretty standard I think.

What redirections are actually being blocked though? Lots of web servers actually use HTTP redirection messages legitimately for forcing HTTPS for example. This is typically done with HTTP 301 and 302 messages which I hope would not be blocked.