Why can't we go back to calling it what it is: user interface?

Because "Are you interfaced? Have you ever been interfaced?" doesn't sound nearly as sexy.

.My question relates only to the user documentation. For developers and designers, we more or less freeze the api/interfaces.

Wow. So your excuse is that you're only dropping this massive rewrite on the audience least able or inclined to absorb it. Way to go.

For more info, you can watch this documentary.

Over $2 billion for FY 2014. $409 million for the last quarter of 2014, which translates to a yearly pace of $409 million time four, or slightly over $1.6 billion. In other words, sales are falling.

shouldn't the organizer of the event -any event- get to choose if it can be broadcast or not, since aren't they in control of the copyright of the recording????

Well, yes, they do. They are. The NFL is the organizer of the event, and controls the copyright of the recording. It's their rule that the game can't be broadcast locally if it isn't sold out, nobody else's. Who else did you think it might be?

...and that's exactly how Facebook likes it.

Thus we have three-dimensional space-time,

If you're nominating time as a dimension, space-time would be four dimensions. Three dimensions would be just space.

Synology now insists that this in fact reflective of their move to quantum computing technology, and that the parrot is both alive and dead.

Or Rollen Stewartux.

I think the key world here is "dial-up". Was UUNET offering modems you could dial into over public telephone network at that time?

The Yamato. Accept no imitations.

Formal language specification isn't meant to be perused with a cup of coffee in one hand. It's primary purpose is that you can use it to prove that your implementation of the language does what the language specs say it's supposed to do. Your "informal (but exact) specification" doesn't do "a much better job" at that. It can't do that job at all.

Sorry, but I think this sounds like treason,

Frankly, it doesn't matter if you think it sounds like fishpaste. It may be reprehensible, it may be criminal, but in the US, treason is defined in the Constitution, and this ain't it.

a flash drive that's ALSO a HID device

It's also a Human Interface Device device?

No, the Pacific Time Zone (Pacific Standard Time, Pacific Daylight Time) is a specific official timezone name that uniquely identifies the timezone that includes LA. Hawaii is in the Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone. Guam is in the Chamorro Time Zone, as are the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa is in the Samoa Time Zone (the independent nation of Samoa is in the West Samoa Time Zone).