Yeah .. OK .. you got me there. But the original author was English.

I just dug into it and found the list of localized names Wally's name in international editions

Of course you can't. Waldo only lives in the US and Canada. Everywhere else in the world you're looking for where Wally is.

And this being a picture of Mont Blanc, in Europe no less, no self respecting freedom loving Waldo would be seen anywhere any cheese eating surrender monkeys*.

Now if you want to know where Wally is .. well I'm sure he is there somewhere. Just keep on looking, or perhaps fling a few $$ at googles mechanical turk, and rent out a real turk for a day or so to do your work for you.

* Not that I consider the French to be cheese eating surrender monkeys. I am just pandering to the Americans who seem to have totally forgotten why there is a 93m copper woman sitting in New Jersey**

** Yeah .. look it up. Its technically in New jersey and not NYC

Or are very smart .. because I assumed that they actually worked.

Leaving aside the technical issues for blocking ads (EG taking up *my* bandwidth for things I have no interest in, nefarious tracking schemes and their ilk, etc), your argument seems to be predicated on an RIAA lost revenue model.

If I "freeload" now in order to view content a website, I severely doubt that I would buy a subscription to view content on that website if it became closed. Therefore if the website can't survive without monetizing all 100% of their viewers, why do you think it can survive with monetizing 100% of a smaller pool of viewers? IE I am not a "lost" sale - I was never a potential "sale" in the first place.

Over the last few weeks I have started to notice messages from various websites along the line of "It looks like you are using ad blocking software. Do you want to contribute to this site in another way?" Meaning do I want to give cash directly to the site.

At the moment I am a bit divided over this issue. I understand their desire to collect revenue to fund a site. But I do need to balance that against the opening up of my system to all sorts of tracking. And at the moment my privacy trumps the websites revenue.

And then you get sites like Slashdot, which have this wonderful checkbox that says because I am such a good user, that they will disable advertising for me if I want. Which even if I do, I still get ads served up to me - hence another reason for ad blocking software.

I disagree that checklists are a "sadly" item. To me they are the bare minimum. If you don't have a checklist of best practices (EG the example you gave or also at a more detailed level only storing hashed and salted passwords) how will upcoming software architects know what they should be doing? If the software industry really wants to earn the "engineering" moniker, then it is going to have to start enforcing some ground rules.

Elon just invented single teacher, country schools with low student numbers!

While I admire his ambition, any school system is going to improve if you bump the teacher/student ratio by a factor 2 or 3

Some other Brits already did that back in early 70's

Radio Goodies

Civilized countries already do that.

Speculation being that he wants to bring his family up in the UK and not in the USA. There is no amount of money that Apple can pay him that could keep Ive in the USA and provide his family with an upbringing in the UK. Thus it is a question of life and not money.

When I was taking a look at that article, this jumped out at me. It's a quote from a Times article:

Really? Probably the most influential person in the the biggest company in the US, and you only give him 3 weeks annual leave? What does he have to do to get 4 weeks?