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Personally I'd rather have that caveat than pay extra to support the 0.01% of the people that consume 1000x more resources than everyone else

What you meant to write was:

Personally I'd rather have that caveat than hurt Verizon's profits to support the 0.01% of the people that consume 1000x more resources than everyone else

its pretty rich to think that these "very few" customers have any material effect on what you pay or even the quality of your service.

this... i just checked whats on there from a friends and its really pitiful now. movies older than 5 years? good luck. movies that didn't go direct to streaming? again good luck. Sure there are some but they are few and far between. Looks like even the DVD catalogue has been cleared out. How much of that is Netflix fault and how much is content provider's is open to debate but the consumer doesn't give a rats about that, they just want to find stuff worth watching.

to know it is a bullcrap index. 1986: Ada as #2. Really? Lisp as #3? Really? The world was COBOL and C back then with FORTRAN (caps then) and assembly thrown in. Was there hype around both Ada and Lisp? Yes, very much so. There wasn't even an official standard until the early 80s but Ada and Lisp were going to be "the future." Perhaps more believable is the 1991 #3 as that is when DOD briefly mandated Ada use.

To call either Ada or Lisp "popular" at any time is really a reach. Hype/astroturfing is not popularity. Even tracking "how to I learn ..." searches does not measure popularity. They are measures of interest. Popularity can only be based upon job requirements, number of projects, even (broadly) loc metrics. Popularity is reflected by use/consumption, not what is talked about.

popular: 1. liked, admired, or enjoyed by many people or by a particular person or group. 2. (of cultural activities or products) intended for or suited to the taste, understanding, or means of the general public rather than specialists or intellectuals.

Of def 2, substitute "general programmer" (ie, Java, C, C++) with 'specialists/intellectuals' being those involved with Haskell, D, etc.

And call his office and call your own congress critters instead of just spouting off here.

rather than say "its the best!" I'll just say it is an alternative to far heavier systems like those mentioned in OP. https://bolt.cm/

been dealing with this as a nightly user and have turned off E10s - Though NoScript mostly works now, I have other extensions that have stopped. Unfortunately, at least one of them does not look to be too actively supported anymore. It is also not certain that E10s provides much more than easier recovery, the performance figures I have heard are not that great though I personally did not notice any slow down (or speed up).

And probably turns out the same way.

and has been updated over the decades, just as has FORTRAN, just as has C, C++, JAVA and gasp.. Ruby. No, its not the new shiny, get over it.

TL;DR: most of the cost is not in the medium

A roughly 300 page trade paperback costs about $4.50 to physically print in low volume. Now go look at the selling price of the books you see out there. Softs are mostly in the $12-22 range for 200-300 page books. Price rises both as the size goes up and/or the audience size goes down. Payments to the author as creator, editor, publisher and assorted others that make the final product possible are a good share of the final cost. Distribution of hardcopy (including storage) is also a factor as is a % cut to the retailer. E-products still require IT staff, equipment and procedures to distribute and e-editions can require additional time to make sure they are optimally formatted. These companies are not running Hillary's email server.

There is a fallacy out there that if you just make it cheap enough you will sell millions. Contrary to what you may think you know, most books sell in very low volumes. Many, if not most, books are fairly niche and the actual audience is not that substantial. Amazon sales ranks? I sold two copies the past three days. Sales rank went from 850K -> 125K.

Have to call you out on that one. One word: Napster. Unfettered e-product resales will just end up with a Napster like clone, crushing the market for both the original work as well as future resales. As an author myself of both books and software, I am perfectly fine with somebody reselling the physical book. I am also ok (were it practical to do so) with the single transfer of software from user A to user B so long as there remains only one usable copy. I think the same could be applied to e-books: resale is fine, just as long as it remains as a single unit.

Copy protection is really a terrible term, it is really redistribution protection.

Its not just air gapping. Air gapping is a fail when an infected usb dongle or other device that can contain hacked firmware is attached to a "secure" system.

My understanding is that there is still a US based manufacturer of 8" (and other sizes) of floppies. And doubt there would be any issue in having a DoD approved contract to periodically manufacture a bunch of new drives.

No, its like going to a mexican restaurant and finding they have 3 'mexican' items on the menu and the rest are french, italian and german.

Never mind that the surface of a car can be blazing hot even in the winter...

New owners, please take note: this is not tech news. Its not even interesting other than as a human tragedy. It is reported widely and in more detail on every commercial news site. Please don't waste space with stuff like this.