My memory for stuff I've read decades ago isn't so good, but I seem to recall a book (or movie?) where the TVs had to be on all the time displaying propaganda. And didn't they monitor the viewers too? They'd also detect if you disabled it too.

It was my daily driver for about a year and a half, used it for Linux development and logging into work systems via the modem. It eventually was replaced by a faster Athlon system. Today I use it as a system to transfer data to/from floppies for other vintage computers.

My current record holder is my AXPpci33 Alpha which I built in 1994 or 1995 to put the first Linux Alpha port on. As far as an x86 based PC it would be one that has a serial PCI card from about the 2000 time frame, but most of the rest of it, other than the case and disks, is now only a few years old due to a lightning strike that happened nearby.

TFA was rolled out at work even when on the corporate network due to cyber security insurance requirements.

You are thinking too small. Claim the reported payouts of all lotteries across the whole planet as a loss.

Au contraire, Linux world domination is a basic tenet of the Linux ardent techies. Except when older architectures and platforms are deprecated.

I know people who were at a company acquired by Google, and they reported experiencing or seeing all of the 4 issues quoted in the post by Seshadri. They said a number (but not all) of the "Googlers" they had to work with during integration came across as very arrogant and naive that things might be done better in a different way than the way Google has always done things.

Most loved, for some self-selected subset of coders more likely.

Maybe since the copyright for Mickey Mouse expires next year Disney will find it isn't worth their time to enforce it in this case.

I agree, the parent should be modded up.

No one specified where the zeros had to be inserted between the 2 and the decimal point.

Maybe single phase of deployment? Almost certainly the interconnect to the grid would be three phase?

That really sounds like someone who had a bad experience with their e-bike. E-bikes will definitely help people who want to reduce their carbon footprint while being able to run errands, commute or just get out for a while outside when they may not have been able to do so due to distance. They are an excellent way for plodders like me who just can't speed their way up long steep inclines unassisted at any sort of reasonable rate to be able to handle them as we age. My e-bike is certainly encouraging me to get out and get more exercise.

I'm not quite sure why anyone is surprised, a rocket stage volume is minuscule compared to the volume of the space around the Earth-Moon system.

I just picked up some reduced price milk, easily identifiable by the obvious sale price sticker, at my store today, and I could tell at a glance that I will most likely be able to finish it before the use by date printed in human readable characters. I fail to see how a QR code would be an improvement on that.