They did NOT lose money on the endeavor. They made extremely large profits for a couple years... and now it's drifted down a lot as the most financially capable potential customers have now been cured. Plus a couple competitive drugs have launched.

But... yeah, they would have done financially much better selling a $20K a year drug to keep Hep-C at bay for these same customers for the rest of their lives.

Of course, not everything is about profit maximization.... it is kind of a nice thing to save thousands of lives. (Unless you are Goldman Sachs, apparently.)

How close is the minimum setting on a Tesla? I.e. what is reasonable to use in that part of the world?

My only modern adaptive cruise control experience was on a rented late model Ford on a road trip. IIRC the default setting was about right for me, but I moved one settings lower in heavier traffic closer to the cities.

when 911 half-angrily called me back after a butt dial to 112. That was the last non-flip phone I would ever own, or so I thought, until phones became nothing but screen...

This makes a lot of sense, in hindsight. For Boring to be useful to vehicles, you'd need to start with a minimum 10KM track (hand-waving) for the large cities that would even consider this - and that would get you a single direction in and out of the centre of a city, if you need to go south instead of north, your SOL. For this to be useful for pedestrians though, 4KM of tunnels would get you a few different paths in the core part of town where it's just a bit too far away from a subway station. Much easier for permits, much lower initial start up costs, and much easier politically.

All the Q4 2017 vs Q4 2016 are messy this year - there was an extra week in 2016. Most journalists are oblivious to it... Gartner being Gartner.... who knows...

I dunno what the hate is, I replaced the battery on my iPhone 5S a couple times. It was relatively doable for something that you'd only do once a year at most. Are Androids even worse?

My biggest grief is trying to find a battery that I had confidence in... unfortunately, in Canada, the options are even more limited than in the US. I would have gladly paid $15 for an Energizer or Duracell branded replacement battery than the random $8 generic I got from eBay.

I understand Intel wanting a GPU to pair efficiently with their CPUs for the smallest form factors... but I don't see why AMD and not NVidia. Did NVidia turn them down? Or does Intel really consider NVidia, who doesn't make AMD64 chips, to be a bigger threat than AMD? Or is there something inherent in the GPU platforms that makes AMD possible but not NVidia?

I suspect that SpaceX will somehow find a way to use excess launch capacity on customer launches to squeeze in a few free LEO internet sats for themselves. (Having said that, I have no idea if that's physically possible with the different orbits that customers need vs what they need.)

IIRC, extended to 60 years, but only after a major refit and re-licensing process.

People click stuff. Using non administrative accounts for day to day use is the best advice I can give anyone. (Though, I actually do use an administrative one... ). The Windows UAC prompt system is actually pretty good, but only if people actually understand them, and most people don't.

I'm leaning towards anti-malware oriented DNS servers too, e.g. OpenDNS, but that's not a Windows specific thing.

I think their costs will be a lot lower than people expect. What fraction of paid launches use 100% of max lift? Probably very few. If there's a bit of space left, especially on a Falcon Heavy, how much is the launch of their ISP satellites really costing?

Yeah, anecdotally I think I get the full recaptcha test when I happen to be in an incognito window. Pretty rarely in the regular browser windows.

Up here in Canada, it's increasingly common for the ISP to provide all-in-one router and modem units. And... what end user even has a clue what putting a modem into "bridge" mode means... other than more work?

At some point, it's just more confusing for Apple to sell routers. I suspect they'll launch some sort of AP-only in the future to support various proprietary stuff.

Anyone who has used 3rd party "web hosting"... should know this. At least my current web host has the decency to pretend they can't see my files without my password when I ask for support. :)

I hadn't thought about it much, but Amazon, through the sheer scale of AWS is trusted with a whole lot of data. What does their ToS say they can do with it?

So... for some offices that I work with, who happen to have an old XP machine kicking around for accounting or some other random task... guess what file sync service they are NOT going to be paying for in the future?