To avoid court costs.

And you don't know that they offered a settlement. MS could have simply told them to STFU or they'd be countersued for X, Y, and Z. Maybe MS threatened to publicly release evidence that showed they were actively aiding and abetting the malware shit MS was called in to clean up.

You can blindly hate MS all you want, but no-ip and its siblings have a less than stellar reputation themselves.

Fuck that. Execute them in the public square.

Religion is the exact opposite. Religion necessitates the humility of the follower in the face of the divine. You don't go to a Christian church and shout "FUCK YEAH, JESUS! WHOOOO!" for 2 hours.

Religious institutions can become corrupt and seek power and wealth from their followers. When an institution becomes corrupt to the extent that followers are controlled and the leaders claim to be divine or close to divine, we call it a cult.
Religious followers can become blind zealots who seek the spread of their religion and the destruction of other religions. When a group of followers become so zealous that they ignore the core tenets of their religion we call them extremists, separatists, terrorists, etc.
Neither of these things speak to the point of religion, however.

Jesus fuck. That's your go-to amazing moment for soccer? Don't waste your time watching the video, kids. The dude kicks the ball from a moderate distance at moderate speed and it goes into the net.

Uh, some of the earliest encryption algorithms ever created are immune to MITM.
The core of the MITM issue is that anything sent over it could be intercepted or spoofed.
So ALL your communication must be encrypted.

All you need a pre-shared key to initiate the connection. Whether that's a password or a certificate or something else makes no difference. What matters is the pre-sharing. You have to fucking know and trust the source of that key. If you're just using a list of certs issued by people you don't know and trusted on your behalf by other people you don't know, then your shit isn't secure.

In an ideal world I'd walk into a bank branch, verify that it is my fucking bank, ask them for a certificate for web access, they'd generate a unique one for me, and I'd copy it to my devices and trust it. I would also give them my own unique certificate, though a username and password is essentially a weaker version of that.

And none of those things are the core claim of global warming... I mean "anthropgenic global warming"... I mean "climate change" dipshits.
Their claim is that people are heating the planet up and that change will ruin everything.
We know from history that higher concentrations of CO2 and higher temperatures aren't bad for biomass or biodiversity. In fact, they're fucking great.

What "real facts" are those? There has not been a single climate model put out by anyone ever that has predicted Earth's climate with any degree of accuracy for any decent amount of time. There has been no experimentation against a nullable hypothesis.

I do know what bogey man means, and I used it correctly.

"Because coal is cheaper in the short term, not accounting for externalities" 10 is more than 20, if you ignore 15 out of the 20.

Climate change isn't an important externality, it's bullshit. And that fact is becoming increasingly clear to the public.

How about we just use nuclear power for most cases because it's more efficient, safer, etc.?
How about we just use electric cars for most cases because they're simpler, more efficient, etc.?
How about we just stop using coal because it's fucking terrible all around?

Why do we need a climate change bullshit bogey man to get politicians to stop blocking natural progress?

This.
Fuck the device, the browser should behave properly. If it doesn't, too fucking bad.
I am so fucking sick of the Android browser deciding I should or should not be able to zoom on certain pages, deciding to reflow content based on my orientation, etc.
And i absolutely fucking hate sites that do not respect my preference of seeing the real site instead of the shitty mobile version.

Google has no interest in rolling out fiber across the country, or even in just the major cities. They don't have the money or the political influence to become a major telco. They simply want more people to use more of their bandwidth-intensive services, and they're using their small fiber operations and this "report card" shit to pressure telcos into upgrading their networks and reducing their costs (both to the end user and to Google).

UFO
ALIEN

REALLY?

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

Everything that has eyes, and many things that don't, convey information with the light that bounces off of it.
So, The Universe.

It's not just agile. Anyone dumb enough to label how they do their job with some shitty buzzword is going to be dumb enough to blindly stick to that ill-defined structure, despite it having little to do with getting the job done.

The witness would be the state, and the state doesn't get punished.