The editors have already begun this process by eating the very name of the fish in question.

i.e. thigh meat, not breast meat

They'll also not take seriously self-righteous morons who use the word "proven" as a justification for their technical prejudices, instead of to denote some objective reality. Or actually, they might, but the rest of us won't.

Most I know do. The problem is that they're not sufficiently expert in the domain (in this case, health care) to determine the purpose, and the purpose the client gave them is wrong.

Specs aren't just some bureaucratic hoop that needs to be jumped through to get a developer to sit down and code, and they're not something a developer can just wing, and get right anyway, because they already knew what they were and were just being anal about getting you to write down.

They are important, and if they're not done properly, the dev will likely spend a lot of time doing the wrong thing correctly, and you will be billed for it.

No, it's really not. It's the name for a cluster running a virtualisation environment that lets you spin up virtual server instances quickly and easily.

It's an abstraction layer that sits between your clustered hardware, and your virtual machines.

It's a mobile. It's basically a rectangular screeen. There's not really much space for design innovation.

Besides, since when have mobiles not had rounded corners?

While that's true for lots of the objections raised, it isn't true for all of them. This, for example:

Government-created incumbent monopolies seem to be playing their part as well.

Pretty much. Nobody I know starts a new project in Java. Sure, they'll maintain it, and if they already run it, they'll add new features to an existing Java system, but if I ask someone to start a new web project, and ask them what the best language to develop it in is, I don't know anyone that would say "Java" (whereas go back 10 years, and it would have been all I heard). And Java desktop apps never really took off.

The only thing that's keeping Java relevant for new development is Google, with Android - and funnily enough, Oracle was busily involved in suing them over it. I feel like Oracle must be deliberately trying to run Java into the ground at this point.

My point is exactly the opposite - are they betting against old school power? This article just says they're *talking* against old school power. I'd be seeing where they put their money before I believe what they say.

Do you really think that an IRL Sheldon without script immunity would be able to do the same? The TV Sheldon also seems to be a pretty crap physicist, given to conspiracy theories, junk science, and an inability to distinguish between fiction and reality.

So an investment company has published reports.

Have they started pulling out of investments in power generation and transmission, then?

Professional journalism was dying long before the internet. Papers were spewing out nothing but press releases and rebadged wire stories long before blogging became a thing. The very fact that the newspapers were offering basically nothing is what allowed blogs to eat their lunch so thoroughly.

Because making it illegal means that nobody will do it. Just like making drugs illegal means nobody in the US smokes marijuana (except in Colorado).

Legislation will give you the illusion of safety, and (maybe, if the company is in the US, and you can afford the legal action) the ability to claim compensation after the fact. It can't give you actual safety.

Yeah, I have absolutely no problem with this article. You don't want RandomCompany looking at your emails? Don't send your emails through RandomCompany servers.

Don't want your ISP looking at your emails? Encrypt your emails.

Don't have the ability to understand how to encrypt your emails and want someone to manage it for you because technology is all so hard but you still want to use it? Suck it up and learn, or pay someone to do it for you and stop whining about your own ignorance.