Capitalization can count in an email address too.

The part before the @ in an email address is handled by the mail server.

Similarly, the part after the third / in a URL is handled by the web server (or other server for not http:)

The host/domain part of the address in either is not case sensitive.

I always thought the quiz was a joke.

Like the concept itself was supposed to be humorous and set the tone of the game.

Don't dog walkers often group together dogs from a similar area?

3 people paying $10/hour vs 1 paying $20 or some such.

I've never been a dog walker, but I've always assumed the people with lots of dogs at the dog park are.

We haven't off shores all of it.

My friend works at a scientific instrument company that manufactured in the US.

The manufacturing jobs pay almost nothing. They have a dozen people making $50k/year or so. The company's ebit is approaches 30%, and the dozen manufacturing jobs insignificant to it, but still the jobs are way low paid.

Maybe there's places with demand that pay well, but it doesn't seem that way to me, even with high value add manufacturing in the mid Atlantic region.

Shipping by see for something like a chip is effectively free.

Heck, look at the travel of something as cheap as canned fruit.

Shipping by see is amazingly inexpensive.

If I had a choice for my last line of defense on data preservation between laymen shuffling tapes and using a cloud provider like Amazon or Back Blaze's S3 storage I am going with the cloud.

I feel like it's less likely to silently fail, and the exposure for a known failure (to change to other S3) is pretty short.

Localish tapes have the advantage of quicker cataclysmic recovery though.

I don't think they traditionally did hard credit checks (or necessarily any, though they do seem to account for varying interest rates, so they probably do soft checks).

Because they weren't hitting credit reports it was creating shadow lending and the companies pushed it more and more.

In theory it's low(ish) interest rate if you pay in 2 months (4 payments), but then it shoots up.

A lot of people with minimal credit histories are accumulating small 4 figures of revolving debt off the record, and banks don't like that.

Without reading TFA how is cloud not off-site backup?

I would think dumping to some kinda S3 write only is more reliable than anything even a medium size company could do.

The last company I worked for we did backblaze for an S3, it couldn't be deleted or updated (versions new files). I fail to see how a company that wasn't quite large could do better on their own. Of course the big risk there is the primary backblaze account getting hacked and the whole thing killed.

Where I worked though they used RAID (mirrored + hot spare) with on system snapshots browsable by employees to handle the primary backup case (idiot deleted something important to them), then an onsite snapshot (daily for 2 months) to cover whatever that would be needed for (never came up, but presumably failure while copying to hot spare).

Then daily with weekly preserved on day 8 off-site (backblaze S3, so cloud) to read only snapshots that also lost some meta data (the system lost extended attributes).

I know it wasn't perfect, but it felt pretty secure to me, and far more secure than any in house solution for the off-site rather than S3 cloud.

This is the one that shocks me.

Haven't hardware tokens been pretty easy to use for a while?

It should have at least required a weak password and good social engineering, and realistically even a good password falls to good social engineering (which isn't particularly relaxing news).

Why couldn't they use radio to a base station where the cable is?

In fact the necessity of running a cable from a base station to a drone makes it seem to mean repeater would be even more important.

Additionally they very likely can't make copyright claims to it (courts need to define the line of where AI crosses from tool to author, but it seems likely that a lot of this is claiming royalties on stuff that is actually public domain).

They always seemed to offer the best value, but never the right frequencies for T-Mobile, so I never got one.

Just adding to things that probably didn't help them. Required a sophisticated buyer (not pushed through carriers) while also not great for the US network.

I think anti trust still loomed when they had their best shot at mobile too.

When they had windows mobile and Xbox was the largest console in the US I thought for sure they'd be able to dominate.

I basically pictured them using a Microsoft account to allow for the phone to participate in Xbox chat and let people talk to their gaming friends on the go. It seemed like a no brainer to me that they could dominate chat, have significant phone penetration with gamers, and keep people a reason to stick with the Xbox ecosystem.

Instead they went with Skype and a weak mobile effort neither integrated with Xbox.

I imagine just 400 million less desktops as they in general become less and less important.

I know a lot of people that have a work laptop and just use a tablet/mobile otherwise.

People that wouldn't have dreamed of not having a desktop or laptop (or even one of each) 10 years ago.

I have a desktop and a laptop, but haven't turned on either for months unless you count my steam deck (which I have docked for some light desktop work).

So basically the copy they made off the pirate site: illegal (to avoid paying)

The internal copies they made after that (or from purchased and scanned books): legal and fair use?