As long as your industry can afford to bleed everyone with legal parasites, you'll remain in business (see SCO).

In addition, when you can buy entire governments (see USofA, the TPP, ...), you will never go away, because they will guarantee your revenue stream.

If the choices finally come down to that, I will choose "NO TV".

I had a Westinghouse 37W1; pure monitor with every input from composite to DVI Worked beautifully for a long time until the backlight finally went out.

Settled for a "TV", but have never tried anything but HDMI-1, and don't use the audio on that (TV volume is always 0), 'cause the sound comes from the receiver.

The day it dies, if I cannot buy a TV (or, at least, large screen monitor) that works without an internet connection, then over-the-air/over-the cable/new media purchase is done.

Of course, I can't buy one NOW!?

RTP/RTSP (RCFCs http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1889.txt 1889 and https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2326 2326, respectively) have been around since the 1990s, while youtube didn't come around until this century.

Why should anyone's "social club" have tax exmpt status?

The amount of real charity done by any I can find is effectively 0, compared to the revenue.

It's a program AND it teaches how to deal with Murphy (nothing worse than getting bumped and watching the rest of your program walk you into a pit or heavy laser fire).

After that, it depends on the child's interests. Robots? Mindstorms.

"Real" computers? Pick up an old Apple II or Amiga and use the Basic to access the display.

I can set up a WiFi port to capture the data over that medium (really nice switches that allow port mirroring), but how can I test that 3/4G data requests not only no longer have the "supercookie", but have no new flavor of tracking tag? I'm concerned that they might have one that gets stripped except for special destinations, such as paying businesses, so I couldn't test it against my own web server.

Rules are differrent there than in the US, but I doubt that there's no money channel to himself, his party, or someone about whom he cares enough to sell out Her Majesty's subjects in favor of the money.

The diesel sold in Europe is much better fuel than the one we dump into trucks and trains. Lower sulfur, for one thing, although we are catching up. Most environmentally friendly motor fuel is diesel (no, it is not the remote-polluting electrics; look at the output of, for example, the Four Corners power complex). Modern biodiesel burns clean and has a very low carbon footprint. Soot traps take care of the particulates.

Additionally, diesel fuel has much more energy available by volume or mass, is less flammable, and hygrophobic (doesn't pull water from the air into the fuel tank) than the lighter hydrocarbons (gasoline, methane, ethanol), or hydrogen (unless fused, of course)

I wish I could have purchased the turbo-diesel version of my Jaguar XJ, rather than having to settle for an XJ-R.

The amount of stupidly cast votes we get now is mind-boggling.

You want to add to that "spite" votes in response to mandatory voting?

There are several, but I prefer the ITAC Evolution.

http://www.itacsystems.com/evolution-mouse-trak.html

So I'm not (quite) a paranoid nutcase for running server-class hardware, including always using ECC DIMMS. Current desktops are older Dell T3500s, with nearly top bin Xeons, upgraded supplies and graphics, plus, of course, 24GBytes of ECC RAM.

First big splurge on a desktop had a Tyan mainboard with the ServerWorks chipset (since Intel's were pathetic, at the time), dual P-IIIs, PCI-X, PLUS an AGP slot. Awesome, for its time.

http://www.tyan.com/archive/l_chinese/html/pr01_s2567.html

I've been running various *nix since AT&T Version 7 and UC BSD on VAXen. I'm hardly "uninformed". I know the intent and philosophy of systemd and the history of its creator; neither of those is acceptable.

The "change" I am embracing is back to *BSD (OpenBSD, currently).

Remindes me of the time, many moons ago, when I wanted to clear a lot of junk from "/tmp" on System V.

About a half-second after typing "rm -rf /tmp/.*\n", I realized that "/tmp/.." was "/", which was, of course, too late.

I was truly thankful for a rigorous and thorough backup schedule.

In California, it is not legal to surcharge for the use of a credit card, but it is legal to offer a discount for cash. The discounts I get average about as much as the rebates; sometimes they are substantial (an $1800 service fee reduced to $1600, for example).