If only someone could figure out how to have a good old fashioned digital book burning. I do love the smell of burning zeros and ones in the morning.

They know. Change is so bad they are killing the penny. (The money, not the blonde)

Arkansas is "The Natural State"

Do you consider the Sahara desert or Antarctica to be in a healthy state?

There are lists of hashes for know child exploitation images that many mail providers use to check against attachments being sent through their system. There are also methods to cause hash collisions which would produce false positives.

So... someone just needs to get the list of "bad" hashes (available online) and make some tiny files people could share/send/receive that match those hashes. Or better yet, randomly add some of those files to the mass emails the site in question is sending to various government employees.

Same dates...
1/4/08 S&P 1411
3/13/08 S&P 1315
4/29/08 S&P 1390

Yes. We also saw that South Park episode.

Nothing is shady around all this. I'm sure he'll enjoy sharing a cell with sam bankman-fried in a couple of years.

2008 was bad for all of 3 months. The DOW dropped by 45% over a couple of months, and then rebounded in about 6 weeks and never looked back.

1/4/08 Dow was at 12800
3/13/08 Dow bottomed at 7223
4/29/08 Dow was back at 12810.

"Internet seemed like it was going to improve all of our lives but the last 20 years have shown that it really doesn't"

The Internet has created millions of jobs. It has also improved millions of people's health through easier access to information. It has also allowed many access to goods and services and much more affordable rates. It has made long distance calls that could previously cost $1/minute or more free. It allows the transfer of images and video worldwide instantly which allows friends and family to stay connected. It has enabled work from home in ways and for many where it was previously not possible. I've been to remote Africa and even there tons of people have phones and its mostly due to access to the Internet.

All our lives are improved due to the Internet.

"Added support for Audible"????

You MUST be getting paid for a post like that.

Did the threat stop? If not, then why aren't US govt reps still complaining about it? Its not like they have been friends of Apple or big companies lately.

Hollywood is a business and does what it can to make as much $$$ as possible. You can "go full throttle" with your money any time you like.

"How long until people quit learning programming languages?"

This reminds me of the Office episode where Kevin starts talking in abbreviated English to "save time".

It seems like you are saying batteries are not useful. They take more energy than they produce, yet have been very useful. Power plants and others often produce more power than they need. Perhaps the creation of this could be a way to store that energy for later.