This kind of behavior by Microsoft is hardly news. It is one of many reasons I do almost all of my work on GNU/Linux.

I'm afraid this will be lost on most non-Canadians.

They aren't forced into the position of defending the copyright or relinquishing it. You're thinking of trademarks. Copyrights are different. A copyright holder can ignore one infringer and still enforce the copyright against another.

The only thing they can't share is links to news media. As you say, they are perfectly free to post their own observations on Facebook, Twitter, their own blogs, and so forth. The only thing they can't share on Facebook is links to news articles. They can still present information from them, just without the link. And news articles are generally not the most informative sources. Here in British Columbia the province provides a very informative forest fire map: https://wildfiresituation.nrs.....

The government should repeal C0-18. They created the problem and they can solve it. In any case, the ban on news is not creating much of a problem. Government public service announcements are not commercial news sites and the ban does not apply to them. Furthermore, people can subscribe to email or text message notifications. People can still go to their favourite news sources without any intervention from Meta. They can also go to information sites like the world air quality map (https://waqi.info/#/c/53.979/-122.854/9.2z), on which I can look at the air quality reading from a sensor about 200 meters from my house, or the Brtiish Columbia wildfire map (https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/map). Individuals are still free to post their own observations on Facebook or Twitter or wherever they please.

This is yet another example of why the duration of copyright needs to be cut back. There is no reason for copyrights to last more than 50 years. That gives the creator plenty of time to profit from his or her work, to create related works, and to control derivatives.

What software are they running? Do the banks all use one or a few banking software systems? Do they roll their own from scratch? Or is it something in between, e.g. a database system that each bank configures?

Waterproofing is not a big issue. These boards only dissolve after 30 minutes in water at 90C. Getting rained on, getting a drink spilled on them, or falling into a lake is not going to dissolve them.

I remember mouth pipetting. We did it routinely because it was more accurate than using bulbs. The higher-tech pipettes that you could set to transfer a given amount of liquid existed but were new and very expensive. I never got hurt, but did once get a mouthful of hydrolyzed human cerebro-spinal fluid. (A little scary, but it actually tasted pretty good.)

I wonder whether their "meat" category includes poultry or is just beef, pork, lamb, etc.? My understanding is that poultry is more economical than, e.g., beef. The article doesn't say what they counted as "meat".

From the information in the article it appears that her sentence hasn't been reduced at all. A sentence can only be reduced by the courts or by the President. The Bureau of Prisons can't reduce a sentence. The article does not cite any court action or a commutation of her sentence by the President. What appears to have really happened is that, based on her behavior so far, the Bureau of Prisons has announced her expected date of release. At the outset, that was set by adding the duration of the sentence to the date on which she entered prison. They have now calculated the time off she can expect for good behavior, participation in programs, etc., and have recalculated the expected date of release taking this into account. If that is what happened, it is standard stuff, based on Bureau of Prisons regulations, and not any kind of favoritism, secret or otherwise.

Recent versions seem to have broken video downloading. I hope this release fixes that.

As is well known, Canadians are nicer and more honest and much less likely than Americans to abuse such a device. :)