Someone on $2 a day is outside the monetary economy. They do not pay for food and shelter with money. p. Do they need surface tablets? Hell, no - they need large format Android phones.

In the days of Fidonet, I had a BBS, and quite a few of the people I communicated with were Russian. Several complained that even one spelling mistake was a problem for them, because they had to look up every single word in the dicitonary. Mistakes like lose/loose are totally mystifying if you don't understand what you are translating.

It made me try much harder with spelling, and rely less on automatic spelling corrections, and also gave me a new insight into the Bible!

You might want to google github or sourceforge.

Why feed back when, you can fix it yourself.

Obviously your sarcasm filter needs upgrading to use systemd.

Of course not. Think of the RIAA!

Of course, Moses may have been a precident - but there is the NIH syndrome.

World's first Dr Who tranplant? Jeremy Clarkson may be needing one soon.

Ye. The threat of yet another karaoke version of "My Way" would definitely drive most normal people to suicide-bombing!

The 9-11 attacks killed a piddling amount of people compared to road traffic accidents, or even people shot by the various US police forces. Probably construction and farm accidents both killed more people. I don't have the data.

The reality is that terrorists are a tiny proportion of the threats to the average American.

There are only two possibilities:

a) The European view: Americans are a bunch of spineless, knicker-wetting, yellow bellied softies, or

b) The American View: those Corporate American Commie bastards have infitrated our gummint!

I wish to propose a third way: both of the above!

Probably most users just think their ISP is a POS but so are all the others. Like most other things in the UK with a "regulator".

If BT isn't blocking you as a result of government policy, then it is probably because their DNS settings are corrupt - again.

How was that patent even slightly valid? Parity was known about before WW1 - and by implication probably before An Wang was born!

The IBM709x series were in use around about 1970. By 1974 the system 360 was all the rage, and bytes were in common use, so probably over 40 years ago.

If there are 9 or 18 (or even 36, if it's a particularly large DIMM) identically-marked chips, that's ECC. If there are 4, 8, 16, or 32 chips, then it's probably not

In the days of the AMD586, it was common for mother boards to be sold with fake ECC. There was actually a "fake ECC" chip soldered where the ECC should be. Often, these boards had defective RAM in too, but would pass the BIOS fake memory test! Memtest86 was written because of these boards.

I bought one myself and was astonished that it was cost effective to deliberately engineer defective machines. Memtest86 may not be very good, but it would flush these boards out, which was the problem when it was written.

Realistic testing for the kind of problem in this article requires knowledge of the layout of memory cells to know which is ajacent to what, as well as prolongued testing. However, it should be possible to produce a background task that does the test continuously and put it in the idle loop. This is often done in embedded systems. Perhaps the memory chips could hold a guide to the cell layout.

And perhaps people who sell defective memory chips could face a class action.

they're a lot more likely to pursue it.

You obviously have not tried it.

Well, he isn't apparently suggesting the police or state should be able to place a camera in every home

No. Install it yourself, and let them use the backdoor. Saves the state a lot of money. He is not as stupid as he looks.