Truly, Opera is the Eudora of the web browser world.

Mercedes bursts into flames on the freeway? Doesn't make the news.

Tesla bursts into flames on the freeway? Front page of Slashdot!

Chevy won't start when it's minus 40 degrees? "Yup. They do that."

Tesla won't charge when it's minus 40 degrees? Front page of Slashdot!

Whatever the shadowy consortium of conventional car dealers is paying you guys, it's worth every penny. Keep it up.

The downside is, if the dickhead in Russia uses your credit card number to order a new iPad, you'll get that money back with only a minor hassle; if your cash is stolen, it's just fucking gone.

It is for Target management!

What the good guys know will be quoted (inaccurately) on cable news; shoppers and shareholders will find out how badly they're screwed. What the bad guys know stays on obscure forums in .ru.

That's backwards.

"Disc" is a non-trademarkable dictionary word for any round, flat object.
"Disk" is a shortened form of "Diskette", which was an IBM trademark for 8" floppy disks (and later their 5.25" and 3.5" descendants).

We shall all fly at the lowest common denominator, because that's how the US airline industry works. No airline enforces the rules on carry-on bag size so everyone can get on and off the plane in less than 20 minutes, or offers no-crying-baby flights, or more legroom, or still serves real food in coach. If one allows phone calls, the rest will within a week.

Completely true, if you go to a real source and not the passenger infotainment display. Tune in air traffic control, and there will generally be a) everything spoken in English b) altitude given in feet c) velocity given in knots.

It is absolutely Emacs' fault that that the default keybindings are still set up for MIT Lisp machines (Super and Meta? In 2014? Really??).

It is also emblematic of the problems within Emacs' user community that they can say with apparent seriousness that the problem is every keyboard and OS since nineteen-seventy-fscking-five "breaking compatibility" with Emacs, instead of their own failure to adapt to a changing environment.

What punishment can we impose if they don't live up to that demand?

(Hint: nothing.)

I'm an expert observer of my own environment, and have noticed that now that they're built into every phone OS it's been a decade since I was more than a few steps from the nearest calculator.

What value does being able to rattle off the old times table have when you're sitting in front of a computer (with a calculator app), with a smartphone in your pocket (ditto), and probably a desk calculator with some vendor's logo on it (since they're about $0.99 in bulk)?

Oh for fuck's sake. Yes. Memorizing tables is not math, it's an exceptionally boring party trick.

Right, but all the sound reveals is whether the CPU is busy or idle (or more likely, how much current it's drawing). Adding random-length pauses exactly at the steps where knowing whether the CPU goes idle leaks part of the key would break this sort of listening attack.

With multi-core processors it might even be possible to mask the sound by starting up another thread to do useless work that sounds like encryption but isn't...

That's dinosaur thinking, though. If they were streaming, they could sell every viewer in every "slot" to the optimum advertiser.

+5, Funny

Because eventually they will. But when they do, they'll be a monopoly that's in the business of selling gigabit+ symmetric connections at a price mere private individuals can afford.

"Home" service from the current monopolies top out around 100 Mbits down and 10 up, and they show no sign of wanting to push those top speeds up, probably out of fear of cannibalizing the huge margins on their $250+/month "business" lines.