Disallowing security updates to run on non-genuine copies of Windows is not exactly in Microsoft's best interest.

I was wondering when this would be brought up. Once the word on the street gets around that you need to remove a millimeter of metal under the serial number for it to be really obliterated, Dremel tool sales will go through the roof.

A 200 MHz signal isn't detectable in the audio realm unless it has a large non-random low-frequency component.
I would hope that Sony knows how to shield the digital circuitry on their MP3 player. I'm still not convinced that you'd be able to do anything about audio noise level by redesigning the micro SD card. The only source of audio noise would be slow things such as page read-related current pulses, and there's not enough real estate on a micro SD board to provide a low frequency filter.

The charge pump is on-chip in all modern flash chips. There's nothing that Sony could do to make their memory card better than any generic SD card in terms of sound performance, other than printing the words "for Premium Sound" on the front and charging more for it.

There are all sorts of jobs these days that do not need to be done, such as writing advertising jingles or maximizing the number of times that a person clicks on an ad. Oh, and most of that work being done to build the JSF. I'd rather have us enjoy that leisure time that we were told (by those utopian si-fi novels) would result from robots doing all the essential work.

In Arizona, we have a type of swamp cooler called a MasterCool which uses a single, big paper cooling pad instead of the shredded wood thing. Ours lasts for several years before needing replacement, and we have plenty of dissolved calcium in our water.

The same argument can be made against the Muslims who think that their religion applies to people outside of it. I am not Muslim, so I am not going to hell for displaying a mockery of their prophet. After all, would the Muslims want to be held accountable to the rules of every other religion in the world?

This is the real problem, and it's on all religious people to behave as if every other religion (and every form of non-belief) is as valid as theirs is. Oh, and Thou Shalt Not Kill.

I put 35 PSI in my Prius tires. I had to put over 50 PSI in my father-in-law's Dodge RAM 2500 truck when hauling a full load. You were saying?

Uber and Lyft may be a hobby for some people, but they are a job for others. The commercial auto license, like the commercial driver's license, is a binary distinction. I'm going to make some popcorn and enjoy this fight.

I thought that was Forbes' job.

Drug-store reading glasses only work if you have nothing but identical far-sightedness or near-sightedness in both eyes.

I am over 50 and have always had astigmatism, and deal with the lingering and ever-changing effects of a shingles scar on one cornea, so my glasses are anything by simple.

My computer glasses solution is to have one pair of trifocals for general use, and a pair of bifocals ground to give a general view of the computer screen, with a close-up along the bottom for looking at the gizmos I'm designing circuit boards for when I'm on the computer. It works pretty well, other than the inconvenience of having to change glasses a lot.

A decent vector oscilloscope display uses the Z blanking input to turn off the beam when not drawing a line. I see no mention of this in the writeup, and consequently there are ghost lines all over the screen. It would look a whole lot nicer if the Z input were put to use.

I got shingles when I was 40 years old, so I knew I was over the hill. Still haven't grown up, though.

Except with the land line, someone has to go find your physical wire pair and connect to it. This is a software hack.

The advantage of 50 is that you get to say "Get off my lawn" and they believe you. Or at least say "In my day, DRAM was measured in kilobytes" and have them stare in awe.