Rare Diamond Confirms That Earth's Mantle Holds an Ocean's Worth of Water (Scientific American, March 12, 2014) says:

It goes on to say

It's not clear from the article if there is any actual H2O or if it's all OH-. If it's all OH-, it's not clear where the extra proton went.

Please, please make it so this is permanently (in hardware) disabled once the end user disables it.

Or you are a spammer calling me and I'm pretending I can't hear you.

Well-maintained wire and fiber is generally more reliable than well-maintained cellular. There's just too many things that can temporarily glitch out a radio-based system long enough to disrupt a call.

There is at least one risk that radio-based systems are much more resistant to: The fiber-seeking backhoe (North American variety depicted, Backhoe fili-comedens).

On the downside, if the only fiber in the area is the fiber feeding the cell towers, the fiber-seeking backhoes will get hungry and seek out what fiber there is, so bye-bye cell towers :).

Where I live, if you don't already have POTS available in your neighborhood, you probably never will.

Even in existing neighborhoods, you may be out of luck if you don't already have a "land line."

Also, long ago (in the DSL era), the phone companies started migrating "plain old telephone service lines with full power-back-to-the-switch" to "fiber to the neighborhood, battery-backup-in-the-neighborhood to your home over copper." This means if the neighborhood loses power, your phones may will go out several hours later instead of "never, as long as the telco switch has power or its generator has fuel."

Pinball (file system), the code name for what became OS/2's (and early Windows NT's) HPFS filesystem.

Managing concurrency correctly is fraught with pitfalls. Best to use a library that handles things like that for you.

I had only one class as an undergrad that went into the nitty-gritty of concurrent programming beyond "just use this library and don't worry about the magic behind the curtain." I don't remember if it was a required course or not.

Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips

Ah, I knew I should've waited for Rocky and Bullwinkle to answer my email about the information Boris and Natasha mistakenly left on their front porch before I posted here. Frostbite Falls's very limited internet must be down again.

Linux can't boil an egg? Don't be so sure.

Soft-boiled eggs, Penguin-style!

"Your mom" - is that some obscure operating system I've never heard of, or is it some obscure database system I've never heard of?

Doesn't mean Y is better than - or even as good as - X for most tasks that X is currently used for.

A seaplane can do something most airplanes can't: Land on and take off from water. That doesn't make it the best option for most air travel. But for some use cases, it's better than a conventional, "land and takeoff on wheels" airplane.

I expect there will be some cases where this database-based system is better than a traditional Linux kernel-based system, but I'm not seeing a compelling reason to consider this "better than Linux" overall.

... as soon as someone got around to it.

... indistinguishable from malware.

I know some dogs who think^H^H^H^H^Hknow they are people.