This would send a clear, unambiguous to each and every nation that would do America harm:

"We have no idea what we're doing, but we're gonna look real tough doing it."

As someone who still loses entire nights of sleep to this fear, you have my deepest sympathy. I'm a total stranger, but if ever you need an outlet or an ear, I'm more than willing to listen and talk. Strength to you.

Don't be an ass.

Without these advances, my wife would likely have died of this disease. Instead, she's alive, and despite the fact that breast cancer survivorship is no walk in the park, she's still able to do most of what she did before.

It's incredible how much medical science has advanced on breast cancer since the late 80's. I hope the research keeps its momentum.

...if we're talking sane implementations, there are plenty of ways to do an effective automatic refresh app, as well. You can provide a small message indicating that the data is stale and the app is attempting to resolve the issue. Heck, you can even design an auto-refreshing app that unobtrusively provides the user with a refresh/retry button when it detects that something's gone wrong with the automated refresh. There are applications and audiences for minimal user interfaces, just as there are applications and audiences for power interfaces. There are countless users in this world who want to be presented with nothing more than what they need for the task at hand, just as there are countless users who want to be able to access everything they could ever need on a single screen. [tangent: I haven't touched MMOs since EQ nearly ate my soul back in the day.]

If you like heavily-used server applications that occasionally lose state and don't have a refresh option, then you'll love heavily-used server applications where a significant portion of the userbase is spamming the refresh button every damned second.

All true and fair criticism--I'd (happily) forgotten entirely about ADB, and I remember the pain in the neck of losing the floppy drive. I'm gettin' old and lazy. :D

The point was less any specific technology/release/decision, though, and more that there's a long and storied history of lukewarm-to-outright-derisive press for new Apple products. It's been both fair and spot-on at times (lookin' at you, G4 Cube,) but it's also been a very common out-of-the-gate response to Apple going and doing something wacky yet again--and is hardly a new or novel reception for Apple's stuff.

Thank you! Yeah, Flash-based b/c it's my work-on-it-when-I-have-some-ounce-of-free-time project and has been in the pipeline for *years* and *years* and *years*. That said, the same code base is also compiling successfully via the still-supported Adobe AIR platform to Win/OSX executable, iOS, and Android, so I'm not *too* worried about losing the web-based stuff.

Yes, I would say it is indeed factually accurate to say that, with a few exceptions*, it is rare for Apple products to receive substantial numbers of lukewarm or hostile reviews from august publications.

*exceptions include Fisher-Price iMac, Desk Lamp iMac, Aluminum iMac, iPod the First, iPod the Touch, iPhone Ha Ha No Keyboard Good Luck With That, iPhone Ick You Used Plastic, iPhone Duh You Used Glass, iPhone Hurr Durr Way Too Many Pixels, iPhone Just Keep Saying AntennaGate, iPhone Horrendous Disfiguring Camera Bump Of The End Times, iPad, little iPad, big iPad, Apple Pencil for god's sake, Toilet Seat MacBook, Won't You Always Be Knocking Your Power Cord Out MacBook Pro, Why Did You Get Rid Of The Magnetic Power Cord Macbook Pro, Give Me Function Keys Or Give Me Death Macbook Pro, Pretty Much Every Other MacBook Pro Except The Original 12" Aluminum MacBook Pro But Also That One Too, Mac Pro, The Other Mac Pro, Pretty Sure There's One More Mac Pro In The Mix Here, Good Luck Doing Anything Without A Floppy Drive Mac, Good Luck Doing Anything Without An Optical Drive Mac, Good Luck Doing Anything Without A PS/2 Port Mac, The Heck Even Is A FireWire Though Mac, Oh Wait I Forgot About The Stupid Cheese Grater Mac Pro Hah Because Of All The Holes, MacBook Air, G4 Cube, Apple Watch, Magic Mouse, Apple TV, OS X, iOS, and overwhelming majority of future products yet to be created

It doesn't matter if someone is making their own copy of Pepe the Frog. It's still Pepe the Frog and is not theirs to copy. This is why you don't see Tony the Tiger on your local store brand of frosted cornflakes; you might see a generic cartoon tiger, if that store brand is particularly small and feeling exceptionally lucky.

Pepe is Matt Furie's creation. It doesn't matter if he hasn't earned a single penny from it; it's still his creation do do with as he pleases.

Matt Furie is getting pro bono legal support from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. Pro bono means "for free".

As it turns out, there are lots of people who believe very strongly that the alt right is an active threat to civil society and antithetical to American values. Many of these people will happily donate their time, energy and money to shutting the alt-right down through legal action, political advocacy, and public outreach. There's nothing nefarious, illegal, or immoral about that in America. It's a free country.

This is *really* cool science, but "paradigm shifting" may be a touch over the top--this isn't the first paper or study to come to the conclusion that Toxo plays a role in neurological disorders, and there are labs around the globe that have been working on this topic for years. (Full disclosure: my wife was a postdoc in a lab that studied Toxo and its role in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I'm no expert myself and will happily defer to real researchers on this, but I picked up a lot over the years from her.)

Fun Toxo tidbit: this is dredged from the depths of my memory, but as I recall that they've found a correlation between Toxo rates and automobile accident rates across several countries in Europe. The underlying theory is that Toxo causes very slight impairments in both risk assessment and motor control in its victims--not enough to really notice in an individual, but enough to track across a population...

I think that if we've learned anything from this incident, it is that Equifax is a competent, professional organization that prides itself on its honesty and transparency, and that they are tirelessly acting in the best interests of the general public.

The Google Drive desktop application is utter garbage for collaborative work. Mis-synced files, missing files, mis-versioned files, corrupted files--it was utterly worthless for anything beyond light personal use.

Here's hoping its replacement actually works.

Q: "Can I walk down the street and buy a slice?"

A (cash): Yes.

A (card): Yes.

A (cryptocurrency): Okay: first, go to pizzaforcoins.com and enter your

Call me when I can walk down the street and buy a slice with it.