That's right. I am willing to forgo my raise and my promotion so fuckbunny over there can have more baybees. They can even raise my taxes. I love screaming kids in the park and at resturants.

It's actually a honeypot but needs to start being utilized as such. When people advocate cryptocurrency it should be noted about them.

Rather than 'shut you off without warning', is there some way they could quietly corrupt the output of the crypto mining? Change it to put bad data into it somehow and damage the credibility of the people trying to mine with others in the community?

This is just idle speculation, but if there are ways to fuck over crypto miners doing things they shouldn't, it should be happening. The worst kind of 'errors' are those that run awhile and create deep corruption.

No, selling customer info to advertisers is not a big part of Microsoft's business, anymore than it is for similar services and competing technologies fom Apple.

I would rather not feel forced to buy within a single retail channel.

Amazon does NOT always have the best prices. How could they? Bezos isn't runnning a charity.

Last week I shut down Prime. That is, I decided to stop paying for it.

Now I will pay the same shipping no matter where I order from. There are a lot of other websites to shop on.

The places lacking in medical care have adults there who should take action. The whole world is not one big village. We wouldn't want it to be that. Everybody has different priorities.

Does that make Slashdot Jezabel? We're too rabid to just be Jalopnik or Kotaku.

Nice try. I suppose the Stockholm Syndrome of being trapped in the Apple ecosystem can be rebranded as "privacy". If you're an Apple marketer trying to come up with a campaign.

But in truth, neither Apple nor Microsoft are Google. Neither company is primarily in the business of selling 'customer' data to third parties.

With years of their teachers telling them how smart they are it was inevitable.

People communicate about computer procedures in symbolic languages.

Or are you a write-only coder who uses only single letter variable names and never adds comments?

No more so than a recipe is just for a power mixer or an oven.

Programming languages are communication. It is the codification of procedures into a language other humans can understand and manipulate. Mathematics is another discipline that uses symbolic languages.

The college course I took in 1978 that counted as a foreign language course was a course using FORTRAN and FOCAL (a BASIC-like timesharing language that ran on the PDP-8).

In 1978 I went to a college where a computer programming course fulfilled a foreign language requirement.