"Oh, battery's dead? OK, here's a power outlet."

How fucking hard is that?

General anesthetic is actually a lot more crude than most people think. It's essentially a short-term induced coma, that's why they need to jam a breathing tube down your throat and it feels like you just gave Satan a blowjob when they bring you out.

This sounds like the first baby steps towards developing a drug-free method of dropping patients out of consciousness, maybe even with little to no side effects.

Reproducibility is a key element in scientific research. I've think you've demonstrated a pretty strong case for it right there.

Also: Occam's Razor. You didn't have earthquakes before and they started when the practice of crumbling the foundational geology beneath you. And this is happening in many places where they never previously experienced earthquakes. As if we even need a scientific study commissioned to determine this? The repeated, consistent anecdotal evidence is overwhelming proof enough on its own.

Though at a higher cost and depending on your location, you may able to get sufficient coercivity to simply facilitate your own hosting.

Setting up your own Linux-based web server is quite easy for the technically inclined.

Then you are free to respond to bullshit DMCA requests with, "are you prepared to commit perjury by filling a false and dubious DMCA claim?"

"To err is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the Operating System."

Apparently not

Google could comply all they want, but it's laughably pointless if the unintended recipient has already read the email, possibly even downloaded it to their device via POP access or IMAP caching.

Can't wait for the forthcoming lawsuit where they try to make this unwitting recipient sign an NDA.

The logic used by the IRS is dubious and daunting. That someone could potentially use something you are giving away for a commercial purpose... does not make sense as reason to deny exemption status.

The propagating effects could be devastating, even beyond open source software. This is basically a blank cheque for them to deny exemption arbitrarily and extrajudicially; if you dig far enough and raise the threshold for degrees of separation as high as you want, you could come up literally any reason you want.

I'm also curious what IRS stands to gain from this decision. An organization that makes no profits pays no taxes. So, what's in it for them to decide this way?

So, Microsoft's argument was that they needed to hijack thousands of computers, secretly redirect them and put people in financial strain... so that someone else couldn't hijack thousands of computers, secretly redirect them and put people in financial strain?

Great plan, fuckwits!

So *that's* why my DDNS suddenly went dark today, with no apparent explanation.

Port 80 forwarding to the right LAN IP. Server daemons are running. I can access all the services directly by WAN IP (not very useful). Updater client running just fine. No firewall configs in the way. No-IP reports the correct IP. No news posting on No-IP's website about any sort of outage or technical issues.

Well, I was lost -- that was everything. ... and that was all because of this horseshit? Guess what... I'm not even *in* the US, so now the US courts think they have jurisdiction over countries? (OK, that's not new)

Fuck all involved. Hope they get their asses sued to hell. And this judge canned for such a dumbass decision.

If they did it right, one should be able to navigate entirely using the keyboard, the mouse being optional.