A law like this may also affect Right to Repair and knock down makers of farm and construction equipment like Caterpillar and John Deere who have been trying to hold a monopoly on servicing their own brands of equipment.

No anxiety from my daughter in elementary school. Had to do long division. We used M&Ms and she got to eat the remainder. Dad had to plan the problems carefully to attain remainders less than 5.

Every retailer wants to know more about their target markets to get that competitive advantage.

Before the web, user information was gathered based on TV channels you watched by vans equipped with radio equipment that could detect which channels were active on a TV as they drove through neighborhoods for ratings or licensing purposes: https://www.theguardian.com/no...

Credit card companies, magazine subscriptions, and mail order catalogs requested were also valuable sources of consumer interests

The search engines and social media are simply extending the concept which is how they get paid for all the free software and services you get.

You can skew the AI engines and results somewhat by periodically visiting completely random sites or posting completely random things way out of your normal interests and watch where those interests show up in ads on other web sites. Industrial equipment is my favorite alternate go to.

by Donald Knuth.

Do all the exercises.

https://www.amazon.com/Compute...

Of course the climate is changing. Has been for millions of year. The argument is over how much human activity influences it and whether restricting human activity would make any significant difference when compared to natural events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions. Climate models also need to take into account long term natural cycles of solar activity that cause warming and cooling. Many put forward as 'evidence' only look at very recent history of 20 or 40 years which is meaningless on an geo-cosmic timescale.

How magnanimous of the UK government to give away property that does not belong to them.

No seriously, that is a fundamentally really bad idea. The earth already emits a lot of radio waves, why invite potential disaster of an advanced race capable of navigating the stars. Sure they might be friendly, but they could equally destroy the planet or decide we're tasty snacks to harvest.

They are right to seek a ban on this. War has to be ugly and horrible for both sides. Eventually we'd just have autonomous robots battling autonomous robots.
Or we can just skip the autonomous war and go straight to computer simulated war with calculated consequences brought to you by the Star Trek Enterprise circa 1967: A Taste of Armageddon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

like the eternal mysteries of how coat hangers multiply in the closet and why socks always disappear in the dryer.

The most colorful explanation I've come up with to what do programmers do is:
I make lots of little bits of light dance.

Will the cable companies charge streaming providers like Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix for priority bandwidth to offset their losses of cable TV subscribers?

Go with a Linux laptop from Dell or a vendor like System76. Ubuntu is super easy and most software is free.

QA done right can add value to a project by rooting our ambiguous requirements and holding developers accountable. Developers are worried about a lot of issues like function, aesthetics, security, performance, scalability. Having QA work from the same specs to derive the functional tests from a different perspective can provide a huge value to developers. But you have to involve QA early in the game.

As attributed to a wise Native American, "You can't make a blanket longer by cutting a foot off the top and sewing it to the bottom."

If the FBI succeeds in making the device manufacturers provide back doors to encryption, it will take exactly 0 seconds for 3rd party apps that encrypt securely to take its place.