This raises the question of why people don't just avoid the pedantic bickering by saying "raises the question".

Congress forces the states to incorporate certain uniform provisions in traffic laws, such as a drinking age of 21. It does this by bribing the states with "highway funds" taken from citizens of other states under authority granted through the postal and commerce clauses.

In the case of dressing up as an identifiable character from a non-free work of fiction, it could be a Lanham Act violation or copyright violation, which is federal. But otherwise, such an ordinance amounts to a dress code for appearing on public sidewalks. How would I go about searching for what other cities have an analogous ordinance?

From the article: "Any security tool that can be entirely overruled by one casual click by an average user has problems." What's the alternative? Should end users have to pay someone an annual fee to skip these warnings, the same way a company has to pay a $299 per year annual fee to load its bespoke apps on its iOS devices?

As part of an economic bargain established "to promote the progress of science and useful arts", as one country's constitution puts it.

How many people are employed by companies deriving revenue from their patents?

I believe you'd have to bring some of your own valuable and relevant patents to the table, just as in any other patent pool.

Which country is industrialized enough to have home broadband Internet access yet is not a member of the WTO?

For gaming, aren't you going to want to use HDMI out to your TV's DAC?

It was supposed to be an allusion to the old feud between Nik and Tom.

For one thing, there are still a couple months before that birthday. For another, was Doom II the last notable PC game to use FM sound?

Ironic that I was reading this while listening to an NSF file, which is music designed for playback through an 8-bit soft synth.

"Decades", plural? That'd be 1994. As I understand it, PC games were still including FM soundtracks back then. For example, Doom II has its 20th birthday this September. Software-mixed tracker soundtracks came into use on PC around the time of Jazz Jackrabbit, also in 1994.

USB theoretically has 127 slots to add a card in, if you buy a lot of 7-port hubs. A USB audio interface also lies outside the electrically noisy interior of a PC chassis.

We'll know it's a naming rights ploy if Elon Musk tries to buy the naming rights to something near Thomas Edison National Historical Park in New Jersey.

There's already an American League Championship Series, and it's the championship of one of the two conferences in Major League Baseball. Its winner plays the winner of the National League Championship Series in the World Series. Any ideas for new names for the World Series that aren't biased toward the American League or National League?