Suppose that such a cooling trend were to occur mainly because of Cap and Trade and friends, but sunspot activity coincidentally changed over the same period. How loudly do you think certain individuals would declare that it was all sunspots all along?
Or perhaps it is only the people that disagree with you that can be irrational fools.
He didn't say that the Wii was as capable as its peers, he said that it was as capable as the best gaming systems around several years ago when we were getting games like Unreal Tournament 2004. Don't mis-quote and then dispute - That's cheating (i.e. strawman).
TFA is about the Wii being less capable than its peers, so it sounds like your complaint should be with the great-grandparent. Nobody was misquoted, the grandparent just directly challenged the great-grandparent's attempt to minimize the importance of what TFA is about (and blaim the publishers instead).
It's not clear what point, if any, you are trying to make here.
TFA is about Google using humans to improve its results, in a few ways.
Wolfram Alpha derives all of its results from a database that is curated by humans.
There are major differences in their approaches (as indeed there are major differences in what they are trying to accomplish), but the general notion of involving human beings to improve your results is the same.
Because major multinational Joe-Blow, Inc., is not comfortable buying joe-blow.tld1 and letting whoever wants to buy joe-blow.tld2, which they could use in a way that damages Joe-Blow's reputation. There is some legal recourse to that, depending on the specifics, but that takes time and is anything but guaranteed. Why risk it? So most large companies (and indeed, many smaller companies) just buy a bunch of permutations of their domain name, including different TLDs and common misspellings. They will generally ignore ccTLDs (of which there are over 250) except maybe the one for their own country, but will often buy several or all of the no-restrictions gTLDs (.com,
So in effect, increasing the supply of gTLDs stands to artificially increase the demand as well, thus offsetting any price pressure.
Additionally, the (theoretical) recovery methods for wiped data all rely on electron microscopes taking extremely high precision measurements. Your hard drive does not contain an electron microscope, nor would that be economical.
I think the GP has confused "realistically doable" with "easy". No one, to my knowledge, has ever argued that recovering a wiped drive would be a trivial undertaking. Only that, to a determined attacker with appropriate resources, it might be possible to do in a reasonable amount of time. And the question is really whether or not that is true.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?