Nice try. ESR is allergic to alcohol.

You're assuming that government-run health care doesn't make a profit for the government. It does, though it shows up in massive bureaucracy employment and other government power instead of cash.

Actually, he looked. The treatment he got was not available outside the US.

See, that's the thing: we get the most advanced medical care in the world, and we have to pay for it. It's not like the money for all of that R&D grows on trees.

He's been doing martial arts for many years, quite possibly longer than you've been around.

Theo de Raadt has people issues. Film at 11.

Fame does not always translate to money. Ask me how I know.

You talk like someone who's never really *used* OS X. It was, and is, a Unix system that anyone can install and administer. That makes it a Very Good Thing, especially compared with the crap that is Windows.

*dingdingdingding* We have a winner!

This is me, exactly. (Well, I'm not the AC who posted that, but he said exactly how I feel about it.) The computer doesn't care about your morals. Neither do your customers. They just want software that works.

I'm using HTML Content Blocker. It stops their stuff cold. And everyone else's, too.

Because clicks on an ad are taken as positive feedback.

Not to mention that they'll track you and start showing you more ads for that seller...

I just updated to Chrome 66. By far my biggest autoplay annoyance is CNN; they autoplay video on every story page that has video. I'm there to read, dammit, not to watch.

Unfortunately, this new feature in Chrome isn't helping, there: CNN still autoplays, with sound. I checked, and my media engagement index there is 0.02.

Guess it's time to turn the hard HTML5 media block back on.

And why not give us an option to stop autoplay on videos, whether sound is present or not?

VirtualBox is nowhere near as polished or as complete as Parallels Desktop. AFAIK, it also won't run existing Parallels VMs.

The Parallels virtualization software for OS X is moving in this direction, though you can buy a perpetual license, at least for now.

There's a reason I still use Photoshop CS 6 Extended: as a hobbyist user, I can't justify $50 a month for software I only use once a month or so.

And no, don't tell me The GIMP is an acceptable substitute. It's just too different to allow my Photoshop knowledge and workflows to transfer.

Amen to that. I'm a developer on a 1.2MLOC project written almost entirely in C++. It's 15 years old by now, and has has literally a thousand pairs of hands in it. It's open source, and so the quality of code has varied mightily over those 15 years. It's a big, bloated, barely maintainable mess, and leaks memory like a sieve that's been blasted with a shotgun.

I learned C++ hacking on that code. I also learned to hate it.

This large project, at least, can't enforce code discipline, nor would it do any good if it could. It would take a total rewrite.

That gorgeous new interface, like all of the halfway-recent versions of Skype, is hideously wasteful of screen space. Don't they understand people do other things on their computers at the same time Skype is running?