"Servers" is not just that instance of node.js that you run in your VM. Servers in general do need hotplug (for example, a RAID array of hot swappable hard drives), and there are benefits of using DHCP for networks of servers too.

And some, such as the original iPad, are cut off in less than a year. Apple is as much of a mixed bag as any other vendor.

You can't pirate something if it is already forced down everyone's throats.

Philips as an example of Japanese tech? Sony and Alpine parent company ALPS are not exactly flourishing

Japanese gadgets are a dying breed. Not only do they have Apple, but they have plenty of Samsung and LG phones as well.

Probably at least 20% of the world's population sees that bag of crap as the useful fertilizer that it is. Slightly fewer than 0.1% of the world's population liked the last U2 album enough to buy it.

Many people can safely drive with one hand but it is safer to be in the ten and two positions with two hands which is why we need to do it to pass most driving tests.

It's not always safer to be in the ten and two positions, as it can interfere with airbag deployment and lead to broken bones in the hand and wrist in an otherwise minor collision.

I wouldn't be unsurprised if it didn't come down to the hypothesis they started from.

And if the unusual happens all the time, then the usual must never happen, right?

Introduced in 2009.

GrandCentral dates back to at least 2007.

The lithium in the universe is all antimatter, and there is twice as much as we expected.

Its a big stretch to go from supporting the right of victims of genocide to fight back to “dedicated to the use of violence” to overthrow the U.S. government or to prevent others from exercising their constitutional rights.. And they asked specifically whether she had been a member of such an organization, not that she was a member of another distantly associated organization.

When I last filled in a security clearance form, there was a question asking whether I had used illegal drugs in the last 4 years. Was I failing to be entirely open by not confessing to have a friend who had an oxycontin prescription 6 years ago?

In a security clearance questionnaire or interview, the questions are very specific, and you answer those questions truthfully, not any others.

I've seen this movie. We need to go to a place with lots of magnetic stones. That's where the alien spacecraft come to save a select few to revive our species on another planet. The catch is, they only want children for their zoo.

They don't want a war. They just want the oil that is under the South China Sea. To be able to exploit it, they first need to establish their claim to the territory. They are taking a gamble that noone is going to stop them by going to war over it, and once they have structures and maybe a temporary population on some of the islands further from their mainland, their claim to the area in between will be stronger than the other surrounding countries.