I learned about night trains years ago from Rick Steves travel books. He pointed out night trains a great deal; a free night's lodging (assuming you have a rail pass) and you can conveniently cover a long distance in a single trip. More daylight hours are spent exploring your destinations. I used them traveling in France years ago - it was great.

...they'll need to put an Apple logo on it.

Even if Apple chooses another name, I'm confident the term "glasshole" continues to apply to those wearing them.

+1. Once somebody is put on a ventilator, the survival rate is 50% or less. It really is a last resort, not a reliable treatment.

Hmm. Speaking of "not happy", I'm not happy about how Paragon's APFS for Windows slowly but fatally trashed my hard drive. First time in a decade I've had to completely restore a drive from backups. To their credit, Paragon refunded my money for the flawed software.

I wrote about how Magic Leap was going to fail a couple years ago. Even got the timing pretty close: https://medium.com/@isonno/mag...

+1. I'd be furious if I'd spent the big $$$ for MIT tuition & housing and the school pulled the plug like this. MIT should refund the students for the lost time, or given them a semester's credit if they need extra classes to finish their degree. If not, I hope the students (or more likely, their wealthy parents footing the bill) launch a class action lawsuit.

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Same thing is happening at $tanford and Harvard too. Why is it the most expensive schools are fine with ripping the rug out from under their students?

As soon as people start getting a $1K/month basic income, every landlord will raise their rent by that amount. Rich still get richer.

My guess is Microsoft had an entire team of people just to create builds of Win7 and integrate it into an installer. Creating useful builds of Win7 requires duplicating the efforts of the Microsoft build team. Does anybody in the open source world really want to take on that effort, for an old system that doesn't run well on modern hardware?

CBS All Access claims to do this. Their "Limited Commericals" plan is $6/mo, there "Commericial Free*" option is $10/mo. Oh, wait, that asterisk? "* Live TV includes commercials and select shows have promotional interruptions." So, they sorta do it.

Somebody will probably do well writing a Google cloud to AWS converter. Here are past samples of Google's long-term product commitments: https://killedbygoogle.com/

See KilledByGoogle.com for the full list of Reasons to be Concerned.

+1. At some point, he used UPS/USPS/FedEx/Amazon/etc. to send something to his grandparent, and it saved the address so it could auto-fill it the next time. This is not voodoo, and it's not even a privacy violation since it's local to his computer. Google may be doing all sorts of evil things, but this isn't one of them.

My home office was wrecked by a faulty "iJump" battery sold on Amazon.