I don't know how common it is, but the reason that they're doing it is twofold: 1) it's true, and 2) acknowledging it in this way makes it pretty difficult for a shareholder lawsuit to prevail later, if this risk is realized.

"Typically," he says, as if he understand the law or court action here. So what are you going to do? Sue for the money you never gave them? I am curious. What is your "prayer for relief"?

Accidental death, suicide, and homicide kill 36,726 annually. In that age group, roughly 43M are alive. That 1:1171 or so chance of dying from those causes by my calculation.

I'm confused by the article, because I'm pretty sure that it's been known for more than a decade that 90%+ of all supercentarians have elevated (above normal) HDL. That's not merely "healthy," that's a specific blood profile variant.

It's not a matter of law, it's a matter of industry-strandard boilerplate contract terms. You might find some small company being stupid, but any of the large ones will have a work for hire clause which does not allow you ownership rights to your code. Period. And a good chunk of them will tell you to pound sand if you try to negotiate that.

> If you are a contractor then they don't own your code.

Jesus, what? Contractors don't own their own code, you're really badly misinformed.

This article isn't scary. What should be scary is that cell companies cell anonymitized _geolocation_ data. That data can be used to deterimine: A) who you are, B) where you live, C) where you work, and D) who your friends are. Step #1. Look where the phone is, regularly at midnight. Step #2, cross reference with public records databases on property ownership. That get's 65% of Americans right there. Now check where it parks every day at noon. Place of work found. And so forth.

A long while back, after getting into Python development, I learned to always use the expand tab option (which always puts in the correct number of spaces to reach the tab stop when you hit tab) and never looked back.

Yeah. This guy's boss is an ass hat. The analogy involves a contractor. If that contractor wall-builder has employees, no, they don't actually work for free. Meanwhile, in addition to the labor rates the contractor charges, they'll have overhead for business operation, risk, and profit margin. So if this guy's ass hat boss is expecting that, then he should expect to pay a lot more for the work. Idiot.

There's a fifth level for ads. They create a background awareness such that when the demand does materialize, and you are presented an array of choices to satisfy the demand, you pick the advertised thing, simply because it seems most familiar. This is, in fact, one of the more powerful impacts of advertising.

The Free Software movement is not about money.

I know Henry. He's an enterprise storage guy. My guess is that he was coming from the perspective of enterprise storage builders. Which is to say, the Backblaze data may be a fine review of the experience consumers are likely to have with hard drives, it's a terrible review of what enterprise storage platform makers would do and what their buyers would expect. Whether or not that's an appropriate response to Backblaze, who intentionally and haphazardly uses consumer drives in their systems, is its own question. But what is certainly true is that you won't experience these kinds of failures from Tier 1 storage manufacturers (e.g., IBM, NetApp, EMC, Hitatchi Data Systems, et al). So in that particularly biased way, the study is indeed "deeply flawed".

No, the law hasn't changed at all. But that's not what they're referring to here. Amazon ships the item to a local dispatch point, and holds the final leg of the shipment until the last possible minute. If that final order doesn't materialize, Amazon is being charged for the charge to the local distribution point (and back).

Huh? "myfirstname.mylastname@myemailprovider.com" is my account on every computer in the world as far as I am concerned. If someone else fraudently registered it, they can take me to court and see how well the court receives their fraud. Not well, in any non-barbaric country, I am sure.

Not to mention, in Asimov's world, robots were self-aware.