Err, illogical behaviour.

I hate to admit it but I ran into similar irrational behaviour. I don't think it was an admin, just someone commandeering the group of related articles.

I put it more down to intentional abuse to control the bias for financial gain, ie: The individual was being paid to subvert Wikipedia.

PPS: I would have purchased an A2 size inkjet if they made cheap ones of those.

I got myself a Brother A3 multifunction scanner/printer. Through away the factory cartridges, fitted some refillables ... top up with generic bottled ink. Loaded up the latest Linux driver for both functions and it's all sweet. I can burn through as much paper as I like now. Everything's cheap. :)

I wouldn't use it for photo printing but it's perfect for everything else. I'm forever printing diagrams, charts and datasheets. Using colour for everything is so much better than the old lasers at work.

PS: It does require a regular cleaning cycle on just the black for some reason. I read somewhere these model printers have a habit of getting air-locks. But it clears easy so no biggie.

"Everyone else" doesn't much care either way. I think you'll find it's just as few people that think it shouldn't be a moving target.

I don't see why leap seconds has ever been an issue. Date-stamping has always been a fickle mechanism that always shifts around according to whatever governments decide.

Metronomic sampling on the other hand doesn't give a shit about the calender and only cares about regular timing.

The two systems, sampling and date-stamping, should not be confused and the one should not dictate to the other. Both can and should be provided for side by side.

If the BSD licence was as useful as GPL then Linux would never have grown in the first place.

http://spacemice.wikidot.com/spaceball

as we choose to make it. Like anything in communal control, transparency, privacy, secrecy are all what we decide to make them.

The day they start wanting less secrecy is the day I start wanting less privacy.

M$ got a free ride on the way up to consumerism but now has to tighten the belt a little and be satisfied more with businesses than consumers.

The Web changed everything for M$, and Apple for that matter. Apple would be dead by now if the Web hadn't turned up when it did.

x86 CPUs have been mostly RISC since the 486. This became particularly true with the separation of the fast and complex pipes.

I think it would be fairer to say x86 turned out to be an OK instruction set for stack based compilers.

Cookies are managed by the user. Scripts that are written to replace rather than sit along side HTML are the problem. Scripts are managed, primarily, by tool-set developers. That makes the script monkeys the evil guys.

Yep. Turning off scripting is the only answer.

The question being posed: "Or are we entering a new brave world, a new phase of human civilization, where quaint notions of privacy and traditional moral principles are becoming ridiculous?"

I then ask why are these supposed secrets of surveillance so sensitive if public knowledge of them is quaint and ridiculous?

More like a total lack of bravery and just more of the same old race to the bottom ... and I consider myself an optimist!

"... really good at achieving the outcomes it prefers," he says. "So good it could steamroll over human opposition. Everything then depends on what it is that it prefers, so, unless you can engineer its preferences in exactly the right way, youâ(TM)re in trouble."

Presumably they left a gaping whole in it.

It's standard practice to test critical code, make that all new code, in live deployments ... only after a failure do they appear to look at the test server bug reports.