this is basically incitement to flamewar :)

true, but that tends to drop the water back off further away than would be optimal for this situation.

I'm really curious what feature causes my Kindle app to need phone access. I was curious why FitBit needed camera access until I realized it had a barcode scanner. But I don't use its barcode scanner, so I'd be perfectly fine with denying it camera access permanently, and if that means having the OS lie to it about the existence or state of the hardware, so be it. Is fitbit going to refuse to install on anything that doesn't have a camera (there's gotta be something out there without a camera...)?

Android apps request everything anyway. What I want is a way to say "yeah, I know you want this, but you ain't getting it. Install anyway, and the OS will just pretend that function returns nothing."

The ones for cars hopefully are, because the car companies have a concept of liability for poor design decisions and they're likely to have or know someone who realizes that RTOS is going to work better for that case than what you'd put on a web server. Like the folks who do the firmware for the engine control system; that's got some reasonably tight time tolerances.

Toasters, not so much. Then again, toasters don't really care about windblown bags.

so, since the attackers came with prewritten exploits, that essentially means that IE got tested first. And this means what?

Which is not to say that it's a bad thing, just that it doesn't match the suggested description

That's not deciding how many are needed, it's experimenting to see how many can survive.

true, but "channel" is not necessarily equivalent to "frequency", and it sounds like they're just looking at sharing the frequency. TDM would indeed count as fast switching half duplex, but polarization might not.

*looks at the number of wifi SSIDs visible from my apartment* yes.

That makes sense. I hadn't considered the difference in speed of travel. Thanks!

Yeah, putting those DEC guys on Mach to generate the next version of OS/2 worked out pretty well.

How will an eclipse affect the solar panels more (or differently) than a cloudy sky would?

yeah, on my personal laptop (not part of a domain) the Date and Time window has a tab named "Internet Time" that my work laptop doesn't. That's NTP (or was last time I actually dug into it), though their list of servers is kinda small.

that's kind of the point. "piracy" is a term loaded with negative connotations. "copyright infringement" isn't. That's why those who wish to increase penalties for infringement like to use the term "piracy"; it whips up more outrage. But many people don't feel that the act of copyright infringement for personal use deserves that much approbation, and therefore the term "piracy" is not appropriate.