Correct. It works both ways -- it depends on how the merchant set up the recurring charge with the credit card company. So that means if one isn't sure (which one usually is not), if one can tolerate one more month of charges, then try the new card number thing first, and if that doesn't work, cancel the card account. Note that this will negatively affect "average age of accounts" on one's credit score.

This is false:

it's a myth that canceling a credit card will definitely stop your recurring charges

Canceling -- that is closing -- a credit card will definitely stop recurring charges. The article is really talking about what is admittedly the more common scenario: asking one's credit card company for a replacement card and number. The article is correct that in that scenario, the charges will still keep coming.

everything from Microsoft / IBM everything. "Program" sounds like something a nerd has to use to do something complicated. "App" sounds like an accessory for a consumer device.

Indeed, I needed DOS 4.0 to run my 1GB full-height 5.25" Maxtor hard drive for my ST/Amiga/UseNet BBS, Hallucination (named in a reverse-domain name kind of way, starting with the randomly assigned phone number and reverse engineering something that spells the number).

In DOS 3.3, the maximum partition size was 32MB.

"without expelling mass" is not the same as "not consuming mass". Electromagnetic effects can be massless in terms of expulsion, but due to conservation of energy (which the researchers mentioned), mass would need to be consumed, unless a super-capacitor could store all the needed energy.

The 368TB briefcase https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/this-briefcase-lets-you-walk-around-with-368tb-of-nvme-ssds

Not news to me, either, Drew.

Aaw, I should have told you. Thereâ(TM)s some equation that relates energy, mass, and the speed of light. Probably most physics postdocs have heard of it.

Thanks, Will-O. I quite remember this cia guyâ(TM)s rubber stamp collection with dozens of great stamps: NOFORN, EYES-ONLY, and different fonts of Secret and top secret. Damn, but the guard at the place seized my paper with all those stamps.

On the other hand, I still have a VIP parking pass for the CIA headquarters â" Lets ypu park right at the front steps. Valid, if you have a time machine going back to April 5, 1988.

My warm thoughts fly over to you, Kill (owatt-) Hour â" last weekâ(TM)s eclipse fund me beneath stratus clouds just east of Buffalo, having a wonderful (though cloudy) day with 4 generations of my family. Itâ(TM)s a joy to see how my home town has evolved â" memories of climbing the Michigan Avenue Lift Bridge at midnight and watching them tap the redhot coke ovens at Bethlehem/Lackawanna Steel mills.

Following up, I am honored by the attention and kindness of fellow nerds and online friends. When I first started on that chase in 1986, I had no idea wrhere it would lead me.

A curious accounting error led me through Unix internals, tcp/ip protocols, early Arpanet connections, and backwards to a group of computer hackers working for then Soviet & Stassi agencies. Along the way, I met people from the FBI, NSA, CIA, AFOSI, and plenty of very smart computer jocks.

It was a time of analog phones and dial up modems; when you would carry coins in your pocket to make calls on the street.

Since then, thanks to the support of online friends and math folk, I have explored and shared interests in topology and math. Along the way, Iâ(TM)ve made plenty of mistakes and bloopers; pretty much the same as student times. Goofups in grad school are easier to sweep aside!

To all my friends: May you burdens be light and your purpose high. Stay curious!

- Cliff

Iâ(TM)ve been away from slashdot for a while, and Iâ(TM)m now on a post-eclipse trip on the east coast.

With good fortitune (and Amtrak), Iâ(TM)ll be home in 10 days; Iâ(TM)ll then fill the tsunami of Klein bottle orders that havve arrived in the past few hours. Over a dozenâ" Iâ(TM)ll be catching up for a few days!

Smiles all around,
-Cliff on a rainy Saturday in Potsdam, NU

...a small fraction of what Sam Altman says he needs

I live in one of the fastest growing suburban areas of the country, and it has been forever since I have seen either a home or a business conventionally stick-built from the ground up. Everything is prefab and has been for at least 20 years.

Stroustrup pointed out strengths of C++, which was designed in 1979

More accurately, the predecessor to C++ was designed in 1979. The full timeline:

1979 Development on C with Classes begun

1982 Development on C++ begun

1985 C++ released

1986 Zortech C++ for DOS released

1992 Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 released