If the earthquake were in... Antarctica or Greenland, you might have a good case.

Eh? This is seismology, not climatology.

Damn!

I was just about to (sarcastically) blame fracking and Sarah Palin...

In the same way that differential air pressure "repels gravity" to keep a plane in the air???

Why didn't the rubber absorb the sound, so that no one heard the master's scream?

Lot's of people still actually hand-write addresses. It needs to get OCRed in order to be sorted.

In times past, sending porn through the mail *was* illegal, and the antiquated version of this program tracked porn mailers and receivers.

Well, it is for sorting purposes. (They've got massive machines running Linux doing OCR which replaced manual sorting, and that requires... taking pictures of the mail.)

Whether all the pictures are also retained is a completely different story. 10 years ago, I'd have said, "No; too expensive." But storage costs have plummeted, so nowadays, maybe so.

I wrote why I don't (as in "present tense") use an AMD GPU. The new and improved driver isn't out in the wild yet, and certainly not integrated into distros.

Modded Flamebait and Troll?

Face it, AMD fanbois: the truth hurts, but it *is* the truth.

No good vaapi integration into mplayer like that of vdpau. Not to mention that the AMD linux drivers are still manifestly slower than the nvidia drivers.

As soon as I read the headline, I hoped that Google would beat the EU. It took effort to remember the Microsoft anti-trust case of 25 years ago, and how -- for many of the same issues -- I wanted the DOJ to grind MS into the dust.

An analogy: a severe hurricane does not mean that the world is coming to an end.

tends to indicate to me that the company was too leveraged.

Amazingly, I didn't go bankrupt, and neither did anyone I know, and nor did any business that I know of.

IOW, stop regurgitating manifestly false FUD.

Good thing I don't use Uber, then!