I was intrigued by your announcement of an impending Reddit IPO and would like to participate. Do you take crypto?

Always beware of a corporate culture whose priority is not to produce superior products or service customers but to "crush our competition."

Argue away.

The point is to prevent "tearing". A lot of effort has been put into solving that problem.

If the pixels were updated in some random or semi-random pattern on the screen it would probably be unnoticeable, but I suspect that either a lot of architectural changes would be needed both in software and hardware, or you would effectively have to achieve a 480Hz full-screen refresh rate to achieve it without doing things like attaching an address to each pixel output so the rendering device didn't need to assume sequential pixels should be drawn sequentially.

California imposes a fee for larger items, like TVs. Retailers pass it on to consumers, but it's clearly disclosed on the receipt as a fee, rather than just rolling it into the price of the product.

The reason open source licenses were originally developed was partially because the concept of public domain is so poorly defined in law as to have almost no weight.

El Reg has moved away from the old, snarky style significantly in recent years, as the Powers That Be increasingly seek to court the U.S. audience. For example, you'll notice there's no more "Biting the Hand that Feeds IT" at the top of the homepage. The old style was meant to be a parody of a British "Red Top" tabloid, which doesn't really translate.

I just wonder: Is it really the most effective way to solve the problems it's being used for? Or is it just a clever trick that allows companies to spin up lots of hype, but is really just an incredibly over-engineered solution to most computing tasks, like using a diesel engine to drive in wood screws?

Tell it to Comcast/Xfinity. Basically, the only way to get off the phone with them is if you agree to keep the service at a lower price, or if you tell them it's actually impossible for you to have Comcast service (because you're leaving the country or something). Lying doesn't come easily to me, but you pretty much have to lie to quit Comcast.

All I want is for iPhone users to stop annoying me with their mass texts.

Not just that. You'd probably also be on pretty strong legal footing if you made derivative works of the Steamboat Willie cartoon, provided your character looked exactly like that version of Mickey Mouse and not any later iteration. You'd probably also have to refer to him only as Steamboat Willie and not Mickey Mouse, for trademark reasons.

As someone who works in media and is a member of a union affiliated with the News Guild of New York, this sounds shitty. But I suppose that if anyone wants to use a bot to summarize news stories, I guess the bot needs to have something to summarize, which presumably would be written by people.

This headline and its summary are probably the biggest load of gibberish I've ever seen on /.

Many of what were once called single-family homes in San Francisco that have more than one story have long ago been converted into flats. So if you buy the building, you are almost by definition going to live in one story and rent out the other.

Yeah, there's a plan: Listen, mister, don't like it that you're living in public parks and downtown streets. So you can keep doing that for free and spend what money you can scrape together on drugs, OR for from $1,600-2,000 per month, you can have a roof over your head. That is, until you can't come up with the money one month, and then we'll kick you out on your ass again. Sound good?