I'm sure if there was a good reason Apple refuses to enable it, they'd reply. To someone. To anyone.

Sean Williams' Twinmaker universe with its "D-Mat" technology might be what you mean. http://www.twinmakerbooks.com/...

I first came across Williams in the sci-fi anthology "Meeting Infinity" with the short story "All The Wrong Places", which is one of the best stories I've ever read. Very moving.

It's about time we stopped expanding DRM to "Digital Rights Management". I don't need anything to manage my rights, digital or otherwise. I pay for content so I consume it. DRM is all about restrictions - it is Digital Restrictions Management.

I don't wish to denigrate the abuses that have happened, I've read about them and they're undeniably appalling. But that fact that some unscrupulous assholes misuse the system doesn't mean the system has to be scrapped. It just needs to be improved. In this case "the system" being skilled, immigrant labour.

The UK is crying out to fill huge gaps in its medical professional staff and we're about to shut the door even more tightly on immigrant labour, of the exact type and skill we desperately need. If we stopped accepting any at all our hospitals and other healthcare establishments would cease to function. I do understand they're different industries and countries, but where there is a real skills gap, it has to be filled by someone, else the country and the customers suffer. By all means come up with a long-term plan to increase the number of skilled locals - better education, outreach etc., but that can't happen straight away.

"There have been many documented cases of domestic workers losing their jobs and being replaced by these workers" This I don't doubt. How many cases has there been of domestic workers not existing, and a firm having to employ immigrant labour, documented or otherwise? One hardly paints an accurate picture by cherry-picking the most blatant and egregious cases and trumping them as the norm, the majority.

I'm less than 20 years in, but it seems we're rowing the same boat. I now have such strong feelings towards Microsoft that if they removed all the telemetry, the forced, cumulative updates, the auto-installing adware and OS-level advertising support, I still will not have it. I've started learning my way through Linux and will be recommending it to my customers once I'm comfortable doing so.

Probably for the same reason, and by a similar cross-section of people, who lambasted Vista as an unwieldy, fat hog. The people who never used it on a half-decent machine and who turned off UAC, ReadyBoost, SuperFetch and everything else!

Even I agree with you here, strongly. This coming from someone who's moving to Linux rather than Windows 10, having been a Windows user since I moved away from Acorn in 2000.

The existing sarcophagus is already at end-of-life. Some of it has already fallen in and the rest is waiting to collapse. It was a rush job at the time. As well as that, it is just a simple, static covering. The new construction is weatherproofed in and out, made of much more modern materials and enjoyed the luxury of planning and worldwide expertise. It also has a remotely-operated series of cranes and platforms which will be used to dismantle the doomed interior which will mean it's not only averting another catastrophe (existing structure collapsing) it is also designed to actively "solve" the problem of what to do with the place.

When I use other people's computers to use the Internet...good god it's like I'm in some sort of fledgling Total Recall. So many of the adverts have reached past the threshold of being parodies of themselves, they seem like their own self-satire. The relevancy or attention span of any amount of text is reduced to almost nil by pictures of mostly-naked people on diet pill adverts, shiny shiny motor vehicles with angry-looking grilles or hilarious gambling animations. There is a massive joke that you and I are not seeing, and that's because we're not suffering the expense of being the butt of the joke that is Internet advertising.

I try only to comment when I have something thoughtful to add, but decided I had to comment despite myself this time. You summed it up nicely. Those advertiser scum could barely be any worse. These is some of those most obtrusive, obscene and despicable ideas yet. They might as well video record me taking a shit and use the colour and texture of my faeces to determine which food or vitamin pills they're going to force down my gullet when I next pause between breathing. Breathtakingly despairing.

Until the horse is then ridden to death around a track for the entertainment of a civilised species.