Which may be law, given all the patents where you take something people have been doing for decades, add the words 'on a computer' and get a goldmine. Depends on the lawyers and the judge.

Yes, but you get a trademark for a specific set of business activities, like gelatin snacks, tires, or desktop software, not for every possible use of a word.

I'm not a lawyer, but a POS and a desktop environment don't seem like overlapping categories for Trademark purposes.

It's not really Chrome, it's a Chrome wrapper around the Safari rendering engine. Not because iOS couldn't run the Chrome rendering engine - them's just the rules. Even as a big fan of Apple, shit like that makes me mad. Just not mad enough to put up with Android.

Even with just checksums, knowing that there is corruption means knowing to restore from backups. And in the consumer space most people have plenty of space to keep parity if it comes to that.

Good backups aren't enough. If the filesystem isn't flagging corruption as it happens, the backup software will happily back up your corrupted data over and over until the last backup which has the valid file in it has expired or become unrecoverable itself.

(Alcatel-)Lucent involved in a new massive layoff? It's another 90s revival. The scars never quite healed from starting my career there in the 90s.

My old boss used to kill his laptops with a glass of wine every year or so. So far my cats have yet to fully kill a computer (though they did zap a motherboard with static electricity once).

MondoMouse only claims to support 10.5 and 10.6. Non starter.

And I haven't heard of any third party mouse drivers supporting FFM. Could you point me to one, so that I can buy that mouse?

No. The employee's lost time and productivity of an employee dealing with a broken device will almost certainly cost the company more than just replacing the device promptly, without any fussing. A new standard keyboard or mouse is on the order of $20. I'd imagine that the cost to a Silicon Valley tech company of having an employee with a broken keyboard for the day, or away from his/her desk fetching a new keyboard is on the order of $50-$100. No brainer.

There are lots of these magic ways to make gas (bio waste to gas for instance) that actually work in a pilot plant. In mass production...

OS History Roughly
MS/DOS 3, MacOS 6, CP/M -> MS Xenix (On a TRS/80 Model 2 modded to 16b specs) -> Minix -> SLS -> MCC (IIRC) -> Slackware -> Red Hat -> Mandrake -> Debian -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu -> Windows Xp, Windows 7, MacOS X

With occasional excursions to BSD/386, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD choking due to unsupported or fussy hardware, and later discarded due to a userspace that made Linux feel full featured and easy. And probably a few other visits to Debian along the way.

Getting pretty close to the root there. I think I started on SLS, but went to MCC because I wanted something that wasn't so bloaty.

Yes, but what OS on the TRS 80? For that matter what TRS 80? 'Cause you got TRS DOS (IIRC), CP/M, Xenix, and maybe a couple other OSish options, on hardware that at times was barely related.

Is there evidence that Apple actually hates them? Or is this more like those side bar ads:

Astronomers Hate Her. Housewife discovers 10 secrets for firm abs.