The difference, obviously, is that mugging people is illegal, while price gouging is not.

Anyone turning to HP for printers and NOT expecting them to claw every farthing from you for ink/toner is deluding themselves. This has been known for decades.

> Also, why does it take 24 hours if the image is already in their database.

Very likely, they're not giving you an intact image from their database. They're taking one or more images from their database and stitching / cropping it to your desired area. Insert a human to review it, and 24 hours is quite reasonable.

Note that the word vaccine is not in the summary or the article. Every mention of vaccines in the comments to this article is therefore off-topic trolling.

All nutritionists will always find exception with your diet, no matter what you are actually eating or what you report to them. This is how they get pleasure out of life: by telling people they are eating wrong. There are probably entire 300-level courses in a nutritionist's education on how to deal with people rejecting their advice because it makes people feel bad.

And it ALWAYS makes people feel bad. Every bit of advice ever given by any nutritionist anywhere in space or time will always be designed to make the advice recipient feel bad about themselves. They may sandwich it with praise but their true goal is ALWAYS to make you hate eating, or hate yourself for not hating eating.

The most effective single change you can make in your life -- no matter what your goal is, weight loss, health improvement, not giving yourself paranoid schizophrenia -- is to ignore nutritionists at all times and in all places.

Similar remarks apply to people who call themselves dieticians, and people who give random UNSOLICITED advice on the internet (i.e. 99% of slashdot/reddit/twitter users).

in trivial ways. But let us stop using Dark Mode for the Google Assistant? Not a goddamn chance.

I thought we'd already been through two or three of these boom-bust cycles with IT. Remember "fourth generation" programming languages?

And plan to never return.

How will the union deal with my dastardly refusal to participate in inflating their members' pay?

>1. Apple is older than MS.

BZZZT.

Apple was founded as Apple Computer Company on April 1, 1976, by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne to develop and sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. It was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. in 1977.

Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

And DOS was a copy of CP/M. And it wasn't even originally written by MS; it was a purchased knockoff.

I haven't run into the issue indicated in this story, but, for the past several weeks, no Office apps (Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook) are able to launch any links whatsoever in Chrome (on my work laptop running Windows 10 Enterprise).

If I change the default browser back to Edge, click a link in Outlook and it opens in Edge just fine.
If the default browser is Chrome, click a link and nothing happens.

The specificity of the obstacle really makes me think this is intentional and not a bug.

It wasn't done in a good way.

If Microsoft required a UAC approval plus a CAPTCHA plus several "are you sure" popups to change default browser, that would be a good way. It'd still take a determined human some time and intentionality to accomplish it, thereby defeating hijacks, but it would be one operation, initiated by the user with one click then answering several questions.

Instead Microsoft said "ha! want to change your browser? We'll make that browser damn near unusable. We want you to suffer for not using Edge."

That wasn't a good way.

> Few can recognize what political spam looks like.

I don't see any difficulty in recognizing political spam. Spam, no matter what adjective describes it, is persistent unwanted messaging. Whether I requested it last year and am now tired of it, or whether the campaign bought my email address on the dark web -- if I don't want it, and you don't stop when I ask you to, then it's spam.

I still wouldn't read it.

If you had a nude Playboy Playmate try to read it to me out loud, I'd shoot her.

Jobs had a perfect opportunity to let Apple die, and he didn't, and I'll never forgive him for that.

One seldom-mentioned positive outcome that would come from eliminating Steve Jobs from the timestream by using a time machine to murder him as a child would be a great reduction in the number of Slashdot comments using fucking Unicode, as you did.

There is absolutely no good reason to use a curly apostrophe in the words "don't" or "wasn't" or "I've". It's completely obvious what the words are when you use a plain ASCII apostrophe as I just did, and nobody can convince me that a curly apostrophe would look appreciably better in a comment forum such as this one. And Apple devices make this the fucking DEFAULT for typing into web forms. What a stupid decision, entirely enabled by Jobs.