Good to see the udev functionality being removed. Not only was its functionality irrelevant to the purpose of the code that subsumed it, udev apparently introduced too many other issues inappropriate for a PID=1 process.

Don't forget temperature survival. Yeah, I mentioned EMP, but there are also other environmental attacks that must be diverted, such as temperature, and water. Shielding won't prevent something from melting.

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It's the end of the world, how will you save your data?

What is the high temperature limit for optical media?

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Will a CD-ROM survive at 400 degrees Fahrenheit? Punch cards and rocks will.

What other storage medium, besides rock carving, can survive an EMP blast?

The size of the IPO is bantered about in US$. Ten years ago, the IPOs were worth less in the US$ of that time.

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It is the same reason that Hollywood always touts dollar amount of ticket sales and not the number of tickets sold. With the ever increasing ticket prices, ticket sales will always increase, even if the number of ticket sales remains the same. If you take into account inflation, Gone With The Wind (1939) is the largest grossing movie.

IPOs are subject to a similar inflationary hype. This is the same Wall Street that crashed the world economy a few years back. They want to make it appear as if everyone is farting sunshine and rainbows so Main Street will start sending money to Wall Street once again.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

... and doubleclick in particular, do not get past my firewall. Among the reasons I block 'em is this malware distribution issue.

... you start to realize that there are other things to life and living than spending more than half your day developing software.

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Don't fight it. Look at it as growing in a different direction.

Institute a low cap on monthly data consumption, then watch who hits the cap.

I sure am happy that I stopped using the Agnitum Outpost firewall on my PCs a few months back. I didn't like having Russian-developed software in such a critical spot on my PCs, especially with Mr. Putin's irrational sabre-rattling. Now, with the possibility of Russia being taken off the internet, my decision looks even better.

It appears that U2 and Apple are proposing an interactive album format that combines the music of a record album with the interactivity of a video game.

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Or to phrase it differently, it appears that U2 and Apple are proposing to make music more prominent in video games.

You access their email inbox. Anytime your parents receive an email, you print it out and snail-mail the printout to your parents. They then send their reply to you, and you type it in.

Of course, that depends upon one's opinion of "practical".

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Some think that "practical" means a complex, overly interconnected maze of software.

An opinion which he expressed.

That sure sounds like an opinion to me. I suspect he stated he didn't have an opinion just so he would start a war among his fanbois.

I do not believe him when he says Apple cannot access iMessage and FaceTime communications.

The last two times the power went out for days, I turned on my battery-powered radio and just scanned the dial until I heard a station giving local information.

That seemed to be a rather easy way to find which stations were broadcasting local info. btw, there were four stations that I could receive which abandoned their automated programming to go local.