"Mulatto" may have its roots in "mula"... "mule" in English. Being the sterile offspring of a horse and a donkey and used as an often-overworked pack animal, it's not a complimentary term.

"Anonymous Coward" sums you up very well.

Cost was initially a major factor for me. With gas/oil, mandatory insurance, parking, maintenance, tickets and the vehicle itself, I estimated I saved $10-12K a year not having a vehicle. Add to that $800 a year in health club membership I didn't need anymore, as I get enough exercise biking 9.5km to work (10x as far away) and back five times a week. Since I was strapped for cash at the time, I switched to biking and now would not go back even though I could.

It's not only cheaper but faster than transit to get to work (25 mins. vs. 45 mins. on the subway even living right by a subway station) or getting anywhere in the core, never get stuck in traffic or in one of the endless subway outages due to suicides or signal issues, never have to worry about finding parking, if I get a flat or worse I can take it on any transit anytime (it's a folder), I can ride in any weather condition better than -12C or heavy snow (have ridden in gale-force rain and was fine,) and do almost all of my shopping with it with a carrier and backpack. Once you're used to it, it's an ideal transportation for cities.

No, just a lump.

I don't know any people that do. Enterprises, aka business and governments, do, mostly for liability and accountability so they don't get sued for using an unwarranted free product when things go wrong, or for interoperability issues, etc. Basically, they are paying for someone to blame.

Well, perhaps not, but this would explain why this universe is "normal" matter with no "anti"-matter. In the gigantic virtual particle event that created this universe, there would of course need to be a paired "anti" universe where "normal" matter is scarce. Someday in the distant future the two will recombine and balance the books to zero sum... and then our universe will cease to be "The Ultimate free Lunch".

... but about ten times until a few months ago, every single time that my Facebook Messenger app. updated, Telegram updated at the same time. Could they be the same or at least based on the same code? There is certainly no shortage of apps. that Facebook has bought and integrated.

If Messenger is actually a rebranded Telegram, then unless Facebook has the source code, Telegram has already refused to co-operate with these requests, and has been banned in a few countries (ie Russia and Pakistan) for this. And if Messenger is compromised, then Telegram would become suspect as well.

He had quite a sense of humor, and use it to cope with his condition. In 2009 when the threw a Time Traveller's Party and no one attended, he indicated that this was confirmation that time travel was not possible.

And as far as we can tell, it isn't, to the point of ridiculousness, and our physics is validated and complete enough on this to be almost certain. Time travel introduces unresolvable paradoxes (ie sending a single particle backwards far enough in time would completely change future atmospheric patterns, weather events and thus affect who was born, including those doing the sending) and and would require unfathomable physics to carry out (on the order of constraining the energy of a hydrogen bomb in the volume occupied by a human such that no damage or radiation occurred.)

Not going to happen. If it ever did, being time travel, it already would have.

It has already been established that thermal/shot component noise (most commonly from reversed diodes) is demonstrably statistically random and is based on quantum electrodynamic events.

TRNGs (True Random Number Generators) using this principle have been around for a while embedded in some hardware such as the Intel 82802 firmware hub found on some Intel mainboards

"According to a recent report it ranks 50th in the world for internet speed..."

Of course... most of the internet traffic is going outside Australia, and then gets bottlenecked at the inverters that flip the bits upside down so that the rest of the internet can understand them. This is why digital goods ie movies, music and apps. cost so much more for Australians.

Well, that's what the industry told me, at least.

The U.S. is spearheading Five Eyes which will propose mandatory backdoors in all strong encryption. I don't think that this is a coincidence.

Apple has very possibly stopped making the 6S; whatever is available is stock. I know this because I work in government mobility procurement, and our VOR recently cancelled all our 6S orders indicating Apple has told them they would never be fulfilled.

Stock up!

... is this the same Best Buy who is best buds with the FBI and whose "Geek Squad" warrantlessly scans every hard drive they touch looking for kiddie porn, warez, etc. and gets paid commission for what they find?

I strongly doubt they have their customer's security interests in mind.

"Police will ring every doorbell and use helicopters with heat-sensing cameras to make sure nobody is left behind before they start diffusing the bomb."

If they are not careful, they will indeed diffuse the bomb. I hope that they defuse it instead.

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DRM-free as always. Just downloaded from there and looking forward to trying it.