Given that Apple is now using a 64 bit processor for this new line, the alternatives for the user involve having either a set of BOTH 64 bit binaries and 32 bit binaries a la Windows, or barely any apps for their new device.

Having both would most certainly be more bulky then only the 64 bit option. Using 32 bit binaries might be possible, but it seems like a waste of a 64 bit processor.

As the 32 bit line dies out, devs responsible for it can be moved to maintaining the 64 bit branch. The user seems well served.

Actually, unless you're coding for yourself, it really does.

Just getting the actual requirements out of clients/bosses can take hours, you have to be able to handle input (and criticism!) from co-workers, and then there's the inevitable complaints about problems real or imagined when you're done.

How in the nine hells will they manage a brighter tomorrow for past generations, given the fact that those are DEAD?

Does this bill have provisions for necromancy?

Google has ~35% of the global ad market. They serve you (nearly?) every ad here on Slashdot, for one example, which you can see if you close one. Unless you're blocking those too - Google's ads are fairly easy to block because they're relatively well-behaved.

If you think Google is not an ad machine and you're not paying for it, boy do I have news for you... :-)

From the GDPR FAQ:

Who does the GDPR affect?
  The GDPR not only applies to organisations located within the EU but also applies to organisations located outside of the EU if they offer goods or services to, or monitor the behaviour of, EU data subjects. It applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location.

The EU may not be able to cash the fine if you don't have a branch under European jurisdiction but don't expect them not to try to enforce it just because their law is stupid.

General Data Protection Regulation, the EU directive about private information/cookies/etc. If your site is visible from the EU, congratulations you need to make sure it is compliant, even if you're in the US yourself.

Mind you, typing GDRP into your preferred search engine would've cost less time than writing the comment :)

Welcome to the problem of reading at +2. That is not, in fact, the comment I was talking about :)

Because graft gets punished less the higher you're up.

You had a good comment, and then you just had to throw in that last sentence...

How did the old truism go again? As soon as the hacker has access to the hardware, you've LOST.

Not just that, but even if they start building tomorrow the relevant space telescope to compare it with would presumably be the James Webb rather than the 28 year old Hubble... Admittedly, with the delays on that thing it may not be launched for another 20 years.

That being that it's hard to hide what you're doing with people's money if it's easy enough for them to UNDERSTAND it.

Think we might still call that a no. It honestly sounds like they weren't being secretive about it at all.

You've not met many women, have you?