You're an idiot.

Luckily, you don't believe me so you won't find me offensive.

More importantly, this same corporations are the contractors that facilitated these acts. Now, that they're outed, they suddenly feel compelled to act...

What really worries me is that the only means the surveillance had a chance at being stopped, was through corporate influence. This combined with the bought and paid for electoral process in The States is the classic symptoms of corporatism (classic fascism).

The entire ordeal just screams poetic justice. Activists been screaming for decades that livestock growing condition are inhumane. That the animals lack living space, kept in unsanitary conditions, over-fed unhealthy foods and are generally mistreated.
Now, all those cost saving measures turn around to bite us in the ass. The conditions bred treatment-resistant pathogens that can only be addressed through old fashion quarantines, frequent inspections and blood screenings while keeping smaller herds and at clean living environment... That is, exactly what we should have done in the first place regardless.
It's not just animals too. There are multiple reports of antibiotic resistant bacteria originating from prisons for the exact same reasons. And the living conditions associated with poverty have bred a few out breaks already...

I think the utility this guys have in mind is to duplicate the bone after excavation and lease the original off to some bored rich guy. This way, you can keep the research going while he gets "exclusive guardianship". Then, if you ever need the original back - which is very rare considering just how many bones are just laying around in basements - you just need to call on some contract clause and possibly give the money back or just borrow it or whatever you agreed upon.

If I recall correctly Google and other parties were doing something similar with ancient manuscripts. Then I suppose the next logical step is archaeology...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspice

already.

Both "admissible" and "admissable" are correct according to the OED.

Going down that road, you can discredit all RISC instructions sets on account of their lower code density.

As for the "only true for applications doing "bookkeeping"", since MIPS is already used in embedded so it's not an issue there, what exactly are you doing aside from bookeeping on a mobile SoC that won't be moved into the GPU core?

The only thing that matters is that there's going to be a GPU core to take care of those operations so you won't be missing them.

And, in ARM's case, there was the reference Mali GPU core...

There's a GPU core you know... Besides, it's not the CPU core but the memory bandwidth that matters.

to sell in it. They're not a monopoly so they don't need to excuse their decisions to not offer a product.

If you disagree with their policies, don't buy Apple.

Or more likely, another back-end for your engine of choice.

Many visually impaired individuals can't use anything but a terminal off a refreshable braille display... Are we to ban all GUIs now?

Computation speed doesn't mean memory size. It's quite possible compiled and yet garbage collected languages could be made to be as computationally efficient as C while possibly having a slightly bigger RAM footprint. So, you'd still want to avoid VMs and interpreters to save up on the CPU time, but no one would worry too much about binary sizes or garbage collection.
You'd still need to be precise and not leaking of course... But that just means the people writing the compiler should know what they're doing.

Why should I care about visits? I don't live off advertisements and page hits.
I'm interested in delivering information. A company's portfolio... A product's specifications... A personal contact page... A data sheet... Wikipedia with NoScript is done right as far as I'm concerned.