After which episode that Adobe had credit card records stolen from it did you make that decision?

Adobe may or may have had one before.

But there are enough other companies that have, that it's easy to make a rational choice based on the probability that it will happen to a company like Adobe, based on what has happened to companies at large that attract large bases of credit card numbers - especially as Adobe has recently moving to a subscription based service where they have presumably got a lot more credit card numbers stored than they used to before.

That was a factor in why I decided that I would not subscribe to the Photoshop subscription, even though the more recent photographically oriented pricing for just a few products was more appealing.

I'm all for paying for products myself, I do so whenever possible. But what I am not for is needless exposure of my financial data just because a company would prefer recurring revenue.

What about "I use this machine a lot while I'm not sitting down" prevents applications from sending each other input events as they choose?

You didn't want to "poison" the ground with gasoline (most of which would burn off) but your are fine leaving toxic foam in the ground that doesn't get dispersed with rainwater??

Well that beats out my idea for the home flametrower. And I was just about to fire up the kickstarter too.

The feds ACTUALLY sent a ton of machine guns to mexican drug lords for a year or so, so I can't really see where they are acting any differently here.

How is it not far more enjoyable than a dialog that says "connection failed"?

Plus you fail to think of the enjoyment of the digital hookers in getting some much desired payback.

why not check out our racing game

Err, I don't have anything to do with racing games???

I'm serious, man. Come to California, see how we do it, or just fucking grow a brain and stop talking about things you don't understand. There are countless people who legally sell pot here. Hundreds of thousands of people in California thank them for it.

Well, this blog post by Sonic's CEO says:

We’ve also seen some inquiries about qualification distances for these products. While qualification distance can vary based upon individual conditions, here are the general guidelines. This is subject to change based upon our observations about performance in the field, because we never want to over promise and fail to deliver.

• 3Mbps/2Mbps: 11,100ft (2.1 miles)
• 6Mbps/2Mbps: 9,500ft
• 12Mbps/2Mbps: 8,000ft
• 18Mbps/2Mbps: 6,600ft
• 30Mbps/2Mbps: 5,000ft

for pair-bonded ADSL2+, so divide by 2 to get non-pair-bonded results. That gives 1.5Mbps/1Mbps at 2.1 miles, which is about what I got for download and better than what I got for upload back in the late '90's. How far are you from the CO or RT?

All would be forgiven if the Rockstar equivalent of a 404 for multiplayer was a gang of hookers appearing suddenly and beating you down until you died.

In most operating systems, there's a component that runs in a more privileged processor mode; that code is "the kernel" plus, if the kernel supports them, any loadable kernel modules that have been loaded.

"Linux" is sometimes used to refer to the Linux kernel, which is used as the kernel in various "Linux distributions", and it's sometimes used to refer to a distribution as a whole.

An operating system generally includes components other than the kernel; some people consider the kernel (and perhaps the loadable kernel modules) to be the operating system, others don't.

"Unix" is used for a whole bunch of different purposes. Sometimes it refers to the operating systems that AT&T made available in the 1970's, 1980's, and early 1990's, sometimes it refers also to operating systems that were based on AT&T's code (BSD, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, etc.) even if the developers replaced a lot of the AT&T code with their own code, and sometimes it refers to those operating systems, regardless of how much AT&T code is in them, that have passed the Single UNIX Specification test suite and thus can have the trademarked name "Unix" associated with them.

OS X is in the second of those two categories (with only a small amount of AT&T code left, just as do the current BSDs) and, as of OS X Leopard, is also in the third of those categories, so it's based on BSD and Mach, and is Unix in one of those senses. Prior to Leopard, it was only "Unix" in the second sense, so somebody could use that to say it wasn't "Unix", even though it was "Unix-like" in the strong sense (see below).

Lots of OSes have non-DOS-style command prompts, and not all of them are Unix or even "Unix-like", either in the weak sense of "sort of looks like Unix, but is sufficiently different that nobody'd mistake it for Unix" or the stronger sense of "compatible with Unix, even if it's not based on AT&T code and hasn't been tested with the Single UNIX Specification test suite (most if not all Linux distributions are "Unix-like" in that strong sense).

(And not all OSes with a DOS-style command prompt are DOS - OSes in the Windows NT family have a kernel and userland that's not at all DOS-derived, but the cmd.exe application provides a command prompt that's DOS-like.)

What does staff being there 24x7 have to do with anything? Are you trying to say that a cleaning crew that only works 8 hours a day is not an important thing to have?

Not for most memorials which are essentially a series of statues, perhaps with two garbage cans in the area - that could be cleaned by visitors just as easily.

Maybe you don't care if the average tourist sees a completely desicrated monument,

I do care, that's why I dislike pointless barricades so much.

People have pride in the monuments, etc.

You don't seem to think so since you are the ones saying visitors will desecrate them without supervision - even though the monuments already spent a majority of time unsupervised.

Visitors can take care of the monuments leaning needs just as well as cleaning staff. When I visit most national parks I am always picking up trash that others have left behind...

I'm saying that you're right when you say "OS X has a BSD+Mach kernel" and you're wrong when you say "They're the same thing!" if by "they" you mean OS X and FreeBSD (i.e., people trying to use OS X as evidence of large market share for FreeBSD are wrong; it's evidence for large market share for BSD UNIX in general, but not any of {Free,Net,Open,DragonFly}BSD in particular).

If you didn't mean OS X and FreeBSD by "they", what did you mean?

The NASA website takes bandwidth and electricity etc.. that is, it cost money to run. Even a republican must know that.

I'm not a Republican. I'm a Libertarian. That's how I'm smart enough to realize that a server feeding you a page saying it's not up because of a shutdown, is still consuming electricity and bandwidth and could just as easily be feeding you the same pages it had up yesterday...

Would you care to explain why whitehouse.gove and the Obamacare sites and many other federal sites are still up, since they would seem to have the same "electricity" limitation you just outlined?

Everything you say just adds to the pile of proof that shutdown is a selective farce.

OS X's kernel is a BSD+Mach+various Apple stuff hybrid, many of its loadable kernel modules are BSD-derived, and the Unix part of its userland is a BSD+GNU+various Apple stuff+various other stuff hybrid; that doesn't mean that OS X is the same thing as FreeBSD, even if most of the BSD stuff is FreeBSD-derived.