"Mathematics may be right or wrong, it may be appropriate or inappropriate, it may be useful or useless."
  -- Edwin B. Wilson, essay titled "The Bridge of San Luis Rey", Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 25 (March 1930)
    Reprinted in A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown, Prentice Hall Press, 1963.

A few months ago, asking "Alexa, pause" while the media was playing through a bluetooth connection started generating the non-answer "You can pause Bluetooth media by going to your tablet or phone." Meanwhile, "Alexa, stop" works.

Seriously. Nobody on Earth should ever trust him, give him anything, or publish his words again for the rest of jhis life. He should die alone and unloved, after a few decades of physical and mental suffering.

It is well fucking known that iPhone Safari does smart quote "correction", changing normal ' and " to the curly quote equivalents without being asked. It is also well fucking known that Slashdot textboxes do not take Unicode input. And now you know, and I know further that you don't care to learn these facts that have been known well over a decade in the Slashdot community. So okay, I'll accept that you didn't know and didn't mean to send garbage punctuation.

But Unicode does not belong on Slashdot comments, and that fact won't recede from your ignorance.

And you just did it again:

> I typed directly into the websiteâ(TM)s text box from my iPhone. I have no idea why Slashdot mangled it, you incorrect and ignorant weirdo.

> This is the kind of âoedevelopersâ who are consuming 90% of the worlds computing resources.

And you are evidently the kind of API developer who pastes Unicode into Slashdot comments because you care more about what you see on your screen than what you're sending to the server.

Who EVER cared about Dr. Dre?

In 2017 they built a prototype. Subsequent to that they pivoted.
See https://newatlas.com/hewlett-p...
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Am I the only one bothered that an article about really really fast storage is represented by an icon of a nine track tape, one of the slowest forms of storage?

there is no blank page option in Firefox for Android 153.0

that settings path does not exist in FireFox for Android 153.0

about:config does not exist in FireFox Android 153.0. it's been gone for several versions.

neither of those settings paths exist in my copy of ff Android 153.0

I bought a Ford F-150 XLT (the full-hybrid pickup) and was very disappointed to find that several of the features (Including Blue Cruise and navigation) were subscription-based with an initial free period of a year or so.

Other than that the vehicle is fantastic - but was very pricey when I bought it, so having to pay over and over for the features was a very annoying surprise. (They quit working rather than quit updating when the subscriptions run out.)

... a bunch of cancer progression theories based on cell culture progression had to be thrown out when it was discovered that the cultures were being contaminated by a particularly robust and aggressive cancer cell culture, HeLa, which had contaminated lab equipment like environmental chambers or survived equipment sterilization and eventually took over culture lines in labs.

This statement is meaningless. "If you don't die first of something else, eventially you will die of cancer" says nothing. Just like "If I don't die before drinking hemlock, I will die when I drink hemlock" says nothing.